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ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2024

Effects of Salinity Levels of Drinking Water on Water Intake and Loss, Feed Utilization, Body Weight, Thermoregulatory Traits, and Blood Constituents in Growing and Mature Blackhead Ogaden Sheep and Somali Goats.

Hirut Yirga, Mengistu Urge, Arthur Louis Goetsch, Adugna Tolera, Ryszard Puchala, Amlan Kumar Patra

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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Nutrient Utilization, Requirements and Nutrigenomics in Sheep and Goats.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026
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  3. Effects of recombinantFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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6 authors.

Hirut YirgaSchool of Animal and Range Sciences, Haramaya University, Dire Dawa P.O. Box 138, Ethiopia.
Mengistu UrgeSchool of Animal and Range Sciences, Haramaya University, Dire Dawa P.O. Box 138, Ethiopia.
Arthur Louis GoetschAmerican Institute for Goat Research, Langston University, Langston, OK 73050, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0466-8900
Adugna ToleraSchool of Animal and Range Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa P.O. Box 05, Ethiopia.ORCID 0000-0002-1693-775X
Ryszard PuchalaAmerican Institute for Goat Research, Langston University, Langston, OK 73050, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1824-4436
Amlan Kumar PatraAmerican Institute for Goat Research, Langston University, Langston, OK 73050, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1410-0902

Funding

Haramaya University HURG-2017-01-01USDA-NIFA USDA-NIFA-OKLUGOETSCH2019; accession no. 1018179
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of drinking water salinity levels on water intake and loss, feed intake and digestion, body weight (BW), thermoregulation, and blood characteristics on growing and mature (18.8 ± 0.39 and 21.8 ± 0.40 kg BW, and 0.6-1 and 1.5-2 years of age, respectively) Blackhead Ogaden sheep and Somali goats. The animals were assigned to a 4 (water salinity) × 2 (sheep and goat species) × 2 (growing and mature animals) factorial arrangement for the 60-day experimental period and 10-day digestibility determination. Water treatments were fresh water (FRW) and low (SW-L), moderate (SW-M), and high (SW-H) levels of salinity (i.e., the addition of NaCl to obtain 10, 13.5, and 17 g of total dissolved salts (TDSs)/L, respectively). The salinity of drinking water did not affect feed intake, BW, thermoregulatory traits (respiration rate, rectal temperature, and heart rate), or blood parameters (

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PMID38891612
PMCPMC11171153

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