The Effect of Supplementation of Mediterranean Browse Species on Nutritive Properties of Sheep Diets and Predicting these Properties from Faecal Analyses
The research investigated the nutritive value and inclusion levels of tagasaste, saligna and river saltbush for sheep fed roughage-based diets. Calibration equations derived from faecal fibre, lignin, ash and nitrogen contents could predict digestibility, short chain fatty acid production and energy...
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| author | Maniksinghage Bogategedara, Pushpakumara Mahipala |
| author_facet | Maniksinghage Bogategedara, Pushpakumara Mahipala |
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| description | The research investigated the nutritive value and inclusion levels of tagasaste, saligna and river saltbush for sheep fed roughage-based diets. Calibration equations derived from faecal fibre, lignin, ash and nitrogen contents could predict digestibility, short chain fatty acid production and energy content of sheep diets containing these browse species. Potential of faecal near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy calibrations for predicting the protein, tannin, protein precipitation capacity of tannin and phosphorus contents of sheep diets was confirmed. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-915372023-04-19T01:26:19Z The Effect of Supplementation of Mediterranean Browse Species on Nutritive Properties of Sheep Diets and Predicting these Properties from Faecal Analyses Maniksinghage Bogategedara, Pushpakumara Mahipala The research investigated the nutritive value and inclusion levels of tagasaste, saligna and river saltbush for sheep fed roughage-based diets. Calibration equations derived from faecal fibre, lignin, ash and nitrogen contents could predict digestibility, short chain fatty acid production and energy content of sheep diets containing these browse species. Potential of faecal near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy calibrations for predicting the protein, tannin, protein precipitation capacity of tannin and phosphorus contents of sheep diets was confirmed. 2023 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/91537 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Maniksinghage Bogategedara, Pushpakumara Mahipala The Effect of Supplementation of Mediterranean Browse Species on Nutritive Properties of Sheep Diets and Predicting these Properties from Faecal Analyses |
| title | The Effect of Supplementation of Mediterranean Browse Species
on Nutritive Properties of Sheep Diets and Predicting
these Properties from Faecal Analyses |
| title_full | The Effect of Supplementation of Mediterranean Browse Species
on Nutritive Properties of Sheep Diets and Predicting
these Properties from Faecal Analyses |
| title_fullStr | The Effect of Supplementation of Mediterranean Browse Species
on Nutritive Properties of Sheep Diets and Predicting
these Properties from Faecal Analyses |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Effect of Supplementation of Mediterranean Browse Species
on Nutritive Properties of Sheep Diets and Predicting
these Properties from Faecal Analyses |
| title_short | The Effect of Supplementation of Mediterranean Browse Species
on Nutritive Properties of Sheep Diets and Predicting
these Properties from Faecal Analyses |
| title_sort | effect of supplementation of mediterranean browse species
on nutritive properties of sheep diets and predicting
these properties from faecal analyses |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/91537 |