ArticleFrontiers in veterinary science2023
Effects of dietary inclusion of dry distillers grains with solubles on performance, carcass characteristics, and nitrogen metabolism in meat sheep: a meta-analysis.
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- Distillers' grains as alternative feed resources for beef cattle: review.Animal bioscience · 2026Article
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- Enhancing Sheep Rumen Function, and Growth Performance Through Yeast Culture and Oxalic Acid Supplementation in a Hemicellulose-Based Diet.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Effect of supplementation of distillers' dried grain with solubles (DDGS) to a straw-based diet on performance, carcass characteristics, and meat quality in Nellore ram lambs.Tropical animal health and production · 2024Article
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- Alternative Approaches to Feeding Small Ruminants and Their Potential Benefits.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
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Abstract
We conducted a meta-analysis in this scientific study to determine the effects of feeding meat sheep dry distillers grains with solubles (DDGS). Thirty-three peer-reviewed articles that met our inclusion requirements and were published between 1997 and 2021 were examined. To calculate the variation in performance, fermentation, carcass features, and nitrogen efficiency between the DDGS and control (no DDGS) treatments, we used 940 sheep weighing an average of 29.1 ± 1.5 kg. We used a hierarchical mixed model to conduct a meta-regression, subset, and dose-response analysis, while taking into consideration categorical variables like breed (pure or cross-breed), and continuous factors, like CP, NDF, and DDGS inclusion rate. Our findings indicate that sheep fed DDGS had higher (
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