Nutritional impact of partial or complete replacement of soybean meal by sesame (Sesamum indicum) meal in lambs rations

Omer, Hamed A. A.; Ahmed, Sawsan M.; Abdel-Magid, Soha S.; Bakry, Bakry A.; El-Karamany, Mohamed F.; El-Sabaawy, Eman H.

doi:10.1186/s42269-019-0140-8

Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 4 Productive performance of the experimental groups

From: Nutritional impact of partial or complete replacement of soybean meal by sesame (Sesamum indicum) meal in lambs rations

Item	R₁	R₂	R₃	SEM
Live body weight (LBW), g
Lambs number	5	5	5	–
Initial weight (IW, kg)	18.75	18.50	18.25	0.98
Final weight (FW, kg)	30.75	33.75	34.25	1.34
Total body weight gain (TBWG, kg)	12.00^b	15.25^a	16.00^a	0.73
Experimental duration period		91 days
Average daily gain (ADG, g/day)	132^b	168^a	176^a	7.95
Total body weight gain (TBWG), kg*	24.75	26.13	26.25	1.11
Metabolic body weight (kgW^0.75) Feed intake (FI)	11.10	11.56	11.60	0.36
Dry matter intake (DMI) as
g/h/day	865	894	902	31.26
g/kgW^0.75	77.93	77.34	77.76	2.71
Kg/ 100 kg LBW	3.50	3.42	3.44	0.12
Crude protein intake (CP) as
g/h/day	144.8	147.5	146.6	5.12
g/kgW^0.75	13.05	12.76	12.64	0.44
g/ 100 kg LBW	585	565	558	20.15
Digestible crude protein (DCP) as
g/h/day	101.5	103.1	102.0	3.57
g/kgW^0.75	9.14	8.92	8.79	0.31
g/ 100 kg LBW	410	395	389	13.97
Non-fibrous carbohydrates intake (NFC) as
g/h/day	280.4	270.3	253.4	9.84
g/kgW^0.75	25.26	23.38	21.84	0.90
Kg/ 100 kg LBW	1.13	1.04	0.97	0.07
Gross energy (GE) intake as
kcal/h/day	3636	3741	3759	13.03
kcal/kgW^0.75	327.6	323.6	324.1	11.37
Mcal/ 100 kg LBW	14.69	14.32	14.32	0.51
Digestible energy intake (DE) as
kcal/h/day	2764	2844	2857	99.13
kcal/kgW^0.75	249.0	246.0	246.3	8.64
Mcal/ 100 kg LBW	11.17	10.89	10.88	0.38
Total digestible nutrient intake (TDN) as
g/h/day	623.8	642.0	644.8	22.38
g/kgW^0.75	56.20	55.54	55.59	1.95
kg/ 100 kg LBW	2.520	2.457	2.456	0.09
Feed conversion expressed (FC) as g intake / g gain of
Dry matter (DM)	6.55^b	5.32^a	5.13^a	0.261
Crude protein (CP)	1.10^b	0.88^a	0.83^a	0.045
Digestible crude protein (DCP)	0.77^b	0.61^a	0.58^a	0.031
Non-fibrous carbohydrates (NFC)	2.12^b	1.61^a	1.44^a	0.099
Total digestible nutrient (TDN)	4.73^b	3.82^a	3.66^a	0.191
Feed conversion expressed as kcal intake / g gain of
Gross energy (GE)	27.55^b	22.27^a	21.36^a	1.109
Digestible energy (DE)	20.94^b	16.93^a	16.23^a	0.844

^{a, b}In the same row having different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05).
SEM Standard error of mean.
R₁ Control ration contained 16% soybean meal (SBM).
R₂ Replaced 50% of soybean meal (SBM) by sesame meal (SM).
R₃ Replaced 100% of soybean meal (SBM) by sesame meal (SM).

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