معرفة تأثير إحلال مستويات مختلفة من مجروش نوى التمر مع أو بدون إضافة خميرة Saccharomyces cerevisiae الخبز على بعض صفات الذبائح للحملان العربية

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This study was conducted in the Animal Farm of the College of Agriculture – University of Basrah.

A total of 28 Arabi male lambs were used, with average age of 5 months and mean body weight of 21.٤٧ ± 1.33 Kg.

Lambs were distributed equally and randomly into 7 nutrition rations to conduct growth and fattening of Arabi lambs which lasted for 90 days.

The experimental rations were as follows: Ration-1- (control) - fed on concentrate ration only by 3% of body weight.

Ration-2- fed on 90% of the control ration and 10% of ground date stones substituted for the barley.Ration-3- lambs fed on the ration 2 with addition of 3 grams of bakery yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) / Kg of feed.

Ration-4- fed on 80% of the control ration with substitution of 20% of date stones for barley.

Ration-5- lambs fed on the ration 4 with addition of 3 grams of bakery yeast per Kg of feed.

Ration-6- fed on 70% of the control ration and 30% of date stones.

Ration-7- lambs fed on the ration 6 with addition of 3 grams of bakery yeast per Kg of feed.

Results were as follows: 1- The highest weights of rib cut (rib 7-12), leg cut and loin cut were for animals in ration 3 (1.61, 5.00 and 2.40 Kg respectively) than other rations but in the loin cut, the ration 3 was similar to the control ration 2.16 Kg.

2- For body measurements, the highest leg circumference were recorded for animals in rations 2 and 3 (35.00 and 36.50 cm respectively) than other rations but these rations were similar to the control ration.

While the highest rib eye muscle area was for carcasses of animals in ration 3 (14.41 cm2 ) but this value did not differ significantly from that of the control animals (13.45 cm2 ).

3- In the case of some carcass muscle weights, the muscle Supraspinatus weight were higher in the animals of the ration 3 (176.67 g) but it was similar to control ration (164.25 g).

Weight of the muscle Biceps femoris was higher in the carcasses of animals in ration 3 (625.75 g).

4- Carcasses of animals in ration 3 recorded the highest dissected lean meat 931.70 g and fat 280.55 g in rib cut, but no significant differences were registered for dissected bone weight among the different rations.

5- Mean weights of separated fat of carcasses were higher for animals of the 2 and 3 rations (1.93 and 1.95 Kg respectively) in comparison with animals of other rations but these rations were similar to the control ration 2.08 Kg.