Nutritional and chemical evaluation of dried pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) peels and studying the impact of level of inclusion in ration formulation on productive performance of growing Ossimi lambs

Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 8 Growth performance of experimental groups

Item	Complete feed mixture (CFM)
Item	CFM₁ (0%DPP)	CFM₂ (0.5%DPP)	CFM₃ (1%DPP)	CFM₄ (2%DPP)	SEM
Live body weight (LBW)
No. of animals	7	7	7	7	-
Initial weight (kg)	22.50	23.00	23.25	22.75	0.38
Final weight (FW, kg)	46.00^b	49.00^ab	51.00^a	47.00^b	0.63
Total body weight gain (TBWG, kg)	23.50^c	26.00^ab	27.75^a	24.25^bc	0.51
Experimental duration, days	119				-
Average daily gain (ADG, g/day)	197.5^b	218^ab	233^a	204^b	4.29
Average body weight (kg)^d	34.25^b	36.00^ab	37.13^a	34.88^ab	0.45
Metabolic body weight size (kgW^0.75)	14.16^b	14.70^ab	15.04^a	14.35^ab	0.14
Feed intake
Dry matter intake (DMI)
g/h/d	1199^a	1185^ab	1160^b	1121^b	13.85
g/kgW^0.75	84.68^a	80.61^ab	77.13^b	78.12^b	0.26
Kg/ 100 kg LBW	3.501^a	3.292^ab	3.124^b	3.214^ab	0.02
Feed conversion (g intake/g gain) of:
Dry matter (DM)	6.07	5.44	4.98	5.50	0.08

^{a, b, c}Means in the same row having different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05)
SEM standard error of mean
^dAverage body weight = (Initial weight + Final weight/2). DPP dried pomegranate peels