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English : New approach for using heart girth for calculating nutritive requirements. 3 For fattening Friesian grossbred male calves.
Arabic : مفهوم جديد لاستخدام محيط الصدر في حساب الاحتياجات الغذائية. 3 - لتسمين العجول الفريزيان الخليط.
Abstract Twenty male Friesian crossbred calves of 180 kg average live body weight (LBW) were divided into four groups. Animals were fed according to NRC (1984) allowances (T1), animal heart girth (HG)X 0.028 (T2), animal (HG) X 0.032 (T3) and animal (HG) X 0.034 (T4). The average daily gain in T4 was significantly higher than T2 and non significantly higher than T1 and T3 The fourth treatment was economically more efficient as well as in feed conversion than the other treatments with no significant differences among them. Every cm of HG in T4 - ( The best treatment in average daily gain, feed conversion and economic efficiency ) required 0.055, 0.048, 0.006, 0.025 and 0.033 kg from DM, OM, CP, SE and TDN, respectively. Also, the results showed that every kg of DM, OM, CP, SE and TDN in T4 was consumed by the following numbers of cm of animal HG: 18.0, 21.0, 162.9, 39.6 and 30.2, respectively. Therefore, the nutrient requirements of male Friesian crossbred calves can be predicted from the following equations:- DM requirement (kg) = Animal HG x 0.055 OM requirement (kg) = Animal H G x 0.048 CP requirement (kg) = Animal H G x 0.006 SE requirement (kg) = Animal H G x 0.025 TDN requirement (kg) =Animal H G x 0.033 Or:?DM requirement (kg) = Animal H G/18.0 OM requirement (kg) = Animal H G /21.0 CP requirement (kg) = Animal HG / 162.9 SE requirement (kg) = Animal H G /39.6 TDN requirement (kg) = Animal H G /30.2 The results of this study showed that the small holder can use the following equations to obtain the feed quantity for male Friesian crossbred calves which fed concentrate feed mixture (CFM), berseem hay and rice straw:- The requirement of CFM (kg) = Animal HG X 0.042 or animal HG/ 26.1, The requirement of berseem hay (kg) = Animal HG X 0.0094 or animal HG / 106.7, and the requirement of rice straw (kg) = Animal HG x 0.013 or Animal HG/ 76.6 Roughage : concentrate ratio will be 0.60: 0.40 by using the previous equations. Keywords: Friesian calves, heart girth, nutrition requirements.
Publication year 2002
Pages 803-817
Availability location معهد بحوث الانتاج الحيوانى- شارع نادى الصيد- الدقى- الجيزة
Availability number
Organization Name
    Animal Production Research Institute (APRI)
City المنصورة
serial title Journal Agricultural Science Mansoura University
Department Cattle Breeding Research Department
Author(s) from ARC
Agris Categories Animal feedingAnimal physiology - Growth and development
AGROVOC
TERMS
Calves. Fattening. Males. Nutritional requirements.
Proposed Agrovoc heart girth;
Publication Type Journal

 
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