The effects of cottonseed cake with or without molasses on feed utilization, purine excretion, and milk production of Boran (Bos indicus) cows fed a mixture of wheat and oat straw

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cg.issn0041-3216en
cg.issue1en
cg.journalTropical Agricultureen
cg.species.breedETHIOPIAN BORANen
cg.subject.ilriCATTLEen
cg.subject.ilriFEEDSen
cg.subject.ilriFODDERen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL PRODUCTSen
cg.volume72en
dc.contributor.authorOsuji, P.O.en
dc.contributor.authorKhalili, H.en
dc.contributor.authorUmunna, N.N.en
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-11T09:24:39Zen
dc.date.available2013-06-11T09:24:39Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/29728
dc.titleThe effects of cottonseed cake with or without molasses on feed utilization, purine excretion, and milk production of Boran (Bos indicus) cows fed a mixture of wheat and oat strawen
dcterms.abstractThe effects of 1.35, 1.8, or 2.25 kg dry matter (DM) of cottonseed cake, with (1.85 kg DM) or without molasses, on straw intake, diet digestibility, live-weight change, excretion of purine derivative (PD), and milk production of Boran (Bos indicus) cows were studied. There were no significant (P > 0.05) interactions. Straw intake tended also to decrease from 5.18 to 4.94 kg DM (P < 0.15) with a daily substitution of 107 g kg -1 with increasing levels of cottonseed cake. Molasses increased DM and organic matter (OM: P < 0.01) but decreased crude protein (CP: P < 0.001) and neutral-detergent fibre (NDF: P < 0.01) digestibilities. Molasses (P < 0.05) and increasing levels of cottonseed cake (P < 0.01) in creased daily milk yield from 3.06 to 3.26 and from 2.96 to 3.32 kg, respectively. Molasses increased live-weight by 300 g day - 1 (P < 0.05). Increased levels of cottonseed cake caused a live-weight change of 69g to 467 g day - 1 (P < 0.05). A supply of microbial-N increased (P < 0.01) in molasses diets but microbial-N production kg - 1 digestible OM was not affected by treatments (P > 0.05).en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationTropical Agriculture;72(1): 63-69en
dcterms.extentp. 63-69en
dcterms.issued1995
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.subjectcowsen
dcterms.subjectzebu cattleen
dcterms.subjectfeed conversion efficiencyen
dcterms.subjectmilk productionen
dcterms.subjectwheat strawen
dcterms.subjectoatsen
dcterms.subjectmolassesen
dcterms.subjectcottonseeden
dcterms.subjectoilseed cakesen
dcterms.subjectpurinesen
dcterms.subjectweighten
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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