Nutritional Studies on Camels Grazing the Natural Ranges of Halaib-Shalateen Triangle Region
HASSANEIN SAAD EL-DIN MAHMOUD BADAWY;
Abstract
The present study was carried out at Shalateen experimental research station, Desert Research Center, about 1400 km South eastern from Cairo city, in Red Sea Governorate, Egypt.
Twenty growing male one-humped camels (camelus dromedarius) aged 12 - 18 months with an average body weight of 166 ± 19.23 kg were used in this study. Animals were randomly allocated in four groups (5 camels in each) according to body weight. This first (control) was allowed to browse on the Panicum turgidum alone as based range. The other three groups on the same range were supplemented with concentrate feed mixture (CFM) and date ground stones (DGS) at the rate of 1 : I at level of
50, 75 and 100 % of the maintenance energy requirements of dromedary camels.
This study was divided into four parts: the first part was conducted to survey the common natural range plants which were grown in the same experimental region and distributed in the area under focusing. The second part (Exp. I) was conducted to evaluate the effect of different levels of supplementary feeding during wet season on intake from pasture, water consumption, digestibility of nutrients and nutritive value, body weight changes and daily gain and some blood constituents. The third part (Exp. II) was conducted to evaluate the effect of different levels of supplementary feeding during dry season on same parameters. Whereas, the forth part (Exp. Ill) was applied based on the results of third part, on intake from pasture, water consumption, digestibility of nutrients and nutritive value, body weight changes and daily gain and some blood constituents as affected by different levels of supplementary feeding with liquid minerals mixture during dry season. Therefore, this study focused on three main objectives:
Twenty growing male one-humped camels (camelus dromedarius) aged 12 - 18 months with an average body weight of 166 ± 19.23 kg were used in this study. Animals were randomly allocated in four groups (5 camels in each) according to body weight. This first (control) was allowed to browse on the Panicum turgidum alone as based range. The other three groups on the same range were supplemented with concentrate feed mixture (CFM) and date ground stones (DGS) at the rate of 1 : I at level of
50, 75 and 100 % of the maintenance energy requirements of dromedary camels.
This study was divided into four parts: the first part was conducted to survey the common natural range plants which were grown in the same experimental region and distributed in the area under focusing. The second part (Exp. I) was conducted to evaluate the effect of different levels of supplementary feeding during wet season on intake from pasture, water consumption, digestibility of nutrients and nutritive value, body weight changes and daily gain and some blood constituents. The third part (Exp. II) was conducted to evaluate the effect of different levels of supplementary feeding during dry season on same parameters. Whereas, the forth part (Exp. Ill) was applied based on the results of third part, on intake from pasture, water consumption, digestibility of nutrients and nutritive value, body weight changes and daily gain and some blood constituents as affected by different levels of supplementary feeding with liquid minerals mixture during dry season. Therefore, this study focused on three main objectives:
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| Title | Nutritional Studies on Camels Grazing the Natural Ranges of Halaib-Shalateen Triangle Region | Other Titles | دراسة غذائية على الابل تحت ظروف المراعى الطبيعية فى منطقة مثلث حلايب - الشلاتين | Authors | HASSANEIN SAAD EL-DIN MAHMOUD BADAWY | Issue Date | 2005 |
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