Cistanche deserticola Addition Improves Growth, Digestibility, and Metabolism of Sheep Fed on Fresh Forage from Alfalfa/Tall Fescue Pasture

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dc.contributor.authorLiu, Xulei
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Fuyao
dc.contributor.authorYan, Tianhai
dc.contributor.authorChang, Shenghua
dc.contributor.authorWanapat, Metha
dc.contributor.authorHou, Fujiang
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-18T10:10:04Z
dc.date.available2020-09-18T10:10:04Z
dc.date.issued2020-04-12
dc.descriptionPublication history: Accepted - 9 April 2020; Published online - 12 April 2020en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study is targeted at evaluating whether C. deserticola addition promotes digestion, nitrogen and energy use, and methane production of sheep fed on fresh forage from alfalfa/tall fescue pastures. The sheep feeding trial was conducted with four addition levels with C. deserticola powder, and a basal diet of fresh alfalfa (Medicago sativa) and tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea). Addition levels of 4% and 6% improved average body weight gain (BWG) by 215.71 and 142.86 g/d, and feed conversion ratio (FCR) by 0.20 and 0.14, respectively. Digestibility of dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), and ether extract (EE) was 62.25%, 65.18%, 58.75%, and 47.25% under the addition level of 2%, which is greater than that in the control group. C. deserticola addition improved energy utilization efficiency, while addition levels of 2% and 4% increased nitrogen intake and deposited nitrogen. Overall, C. deserticola has the potential to improve growth performance, digestion of sheep, so it has suitability to be used as a feed additive.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipStrategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences, grant number XDA20100102 National Natural Science Foundation of China, grant number 31672472 e Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University, grant number IRT_17R50 Major Special Science and Technology Project of Gansu Province, grant number 18ZD2FA009en_US
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12518/175
dc.identifier.citationLiu, X., Liu, F., Yan, T., Chang, S., Wanapat, M. and Hou, F. (2020) ‘Cistanche deserticola Addition Improves Growth, Digestibility, and Metabolism of Sheep Fed on Fresh Forage from Alfalfa/Tall Fescue Pasture’, Animals. MDPI AG, 10(4), p. 668. doi: 10.3390/ani10040668.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2076-2615
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/ani10040668
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.rights© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en_US
dc.subjectadditives, NDF, body weight gain, dry matter intake, urine energy, enteric methane emission, grasslanden_US
dc.titleCistanche deserticola Addition Improves Growth, Digestibility, and Metabolism of Sheep Fed on Fresh Forage from Alfalfa/Tall Fescue Pastureen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dcterms.dateAccepted9 April 2020
dcterms.dateSubmitted4 March 2020

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