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Effect of the Replacement of Maize Silage and Soyabean Meal with Mulberry Silage in the Diet of Hu Lambs on Growth Performance, Serum Biochemical Indices, Slaughter Performance, and Meat Quality.
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- Mulberry Silage as Alternative to Soybean Meal Protein in Ruminant Diet: Effect on Growth Performance, Digestion, Antioxidant Capacity, and Carcass Characteristics of Goats.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Effects of wilting and additives on fermentation characteristics, microbial composition, metabolome, and ruminal degradation properties of mulberry silage.BMC microbiology · 2026Article
- Replacing rice straw with peanut vine andAnimal nutrition (Zhongguo xu mu shou yi xue hui) · 2025Article
- Effects of Diet Xylooligosaccharide Supplementation on Growth Performance, Carcass Characteristics, and Meat Quality of Hu Lambs.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effects of dietaryFrontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- Effects of intramuscular fat on the flavor of fresh sheep and goat meat: Recent insights into pre-mortem and post-mortem factors.Food chemistry: X · 2025Review
- Chemical characteristics, antioxidant capacity, bacterial community, and metabolite composition of mulberry silage ensiling with lactic acid bacteria.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Maize silage has a high demand for fertilizer and water. As an unconventional feed resource, mulberry silage has the potential to replace most maize silage and to alleviate the shortage of roughage in the mutton sheep industry in China. The purpose of this experiment was to study the effect of the replacement of maize silage and soyabean meal with mulberry silage in the diet of Hu lambs on growth performance, serum biochemical indices, slaughter performance, and meat quality. Ninety-six healthy Hu lambs were randomly divided into four groups with six replicates per group and four lambs per replicate. The amounts of 0, 20, 40, and 60% of maize silage were replaced by mulberry silage in each group (denoted as CON, L, M, and H, respectively). The results showed that replacing maize silage with mulberry silage had no significant effect on the growth performance or the slaughter performance of Hu lambs (p > 0.05). Feeding Hu lambs with mulberry silage significantly reduced serum glucose (GLU) and the blood urea nitrogen (BUN) content (p < 0.05), and it increased the content of ether extract (EE) in the longissimus dorsi muscle (p < 0.05). Meanwhile, the percentage of EAA in the M and H groups was significantly lower than that in the CON and L groups (p < 0.05). In addition, in the fatty acid profile, the percentage of C16:1 in the M group was significantly increased, while the percentage of C18:0 and C20:0 were significantly decreased (p < 0.05). Based on these findings, it was recommended that 20−40% of maize silage be replaced by mulberry silage in the diet of Hu lambs.
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