EFFECT OF USING PROPOLIS WITH Saccharomyces cerevisiae IN RATIONS ON SOME PRODUCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF AWASSI LAMBS. | ||
| Euphrates Journal of Agriculture Science | ||
| Article 1, Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2014, Pages 86-93 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract : Twenty four Awassi lambs 4-5 months aged and 27.04 ± 2 Kg as average body weight were used in this study . lambs were randomly allocated in to four groups(6 lambs each).The animals were fed in the groups as indvidual feeding(3% of body weight) on 4 rations; without additives as a control ration(T1) ,with add 150gm of propolis(pro;T2), or 2kg of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Sc;T3) and mixed of pro + Sc/ton (T4) .The forth of rations were compressed as pellets, barely straw was given ad lib and free , clean water. The experiment lasted 90 days. Results indicated the followings: All treatments were surpussed significantly (p < 0.05) on the control treatment in feed conversion ratio at a ratio 45.5% between the best values (T4) and the control treatment (T1), while treatment did not differ in the dry matter intake of the roughage or the pellet or the total dry matter feed intake, this indicated that the differences due to the responses of lambs to additive either from propolis or Sc or their mixture in the weight gain due to the feed efficienncy( all lambs consumed same amounts from feeds which effected were not significant)which was a connecting trait between the consumed feed and the total weight gain. A significant surpass (p<0.05) of the final weight , total gain and daily gain of the additive treatments (T2 ,T3 and T4) on the control treatment (T1).The highest and the lowest values of these traits as a ratio were 17.1% , 42.43% and 42.42% respactively in comparasion with the control tretment, may be this was due to the addition of propolis and Sc and their synergestic effects of propolis and the Sc which gave the best usage level of the dietery value because of the additives in comparasion with the control ration which was reflected on the studied traits by the responses of lambs to the other treatments in weight gain. | ||
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