Mitigation of The Diet Using Dried Olive Pulp and Its Effect on Growth and Food Utilization Efficiency in Awassi Lambs

• Omar Almallah, Mohammed Abdullah, Mohammed Riyadh, Raghad Dawood

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Fifteen 5-6 months old Awassi lambs ages, weighing an average of 31.5 kg, were evaluated for their growth and blood parameters in relation to the level of their olive pulp they consumption. The lambs were divided into three groups. Each group received 3% of its body weight of concentrate feed manufactured by Erbil Feed in pellet form. The first group received was the control fed with concentrate feed without olive pulp, the second and third treatments were also fed the concentrate feed, but contained 5% and 10% air-dried olive pulp respectively. The results indicated that there were no significant differences in average weight but noticed non- significant increase in the treatments fed olive pulp compared to the control, also, it was more economical. Blood parameters showed that feeding 5% olive pulp to the lambs led to significant decreases in total protein, globulin, and urea concentrations compared to the other two treatments. Triglyceride and low-density cholesterol concentrations decreased significantly in the two olive pulp treatments compared to the control. However, the concentrations of cholesterol and high-density cholesterol decreased significantly in the 10% olive pulp treatment compared to the other two treatments. In conclusion, olive pulp feeding had no adverse effect on lambs growth and it increased economic inputs

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