| Treatments |
| Non-edible offal |
T1 |
T2 |
T3 |
T4 |
SEM |
SL |
| Head without tongue (kg) |
1.1b |
1.3a |
1.3a |
1.3a |
0.037 |
*** |
| Feet (g) |
312 |
371.6 |
331.6 |
344.2 |
18.73 |
Ns |
| Gut content (kg) |
5.8a |
5.9a |
4.9b |
5.4a |
0.25 |
** |
| Penis (g) |
54.5c |
80.2ab |
67.0bc |
92.7a |
8.43 |
* |
| Spleen (g) |
22.7 |
29.6 |
32.3 |
30.5 |
2.44 |
Ns |
| Skin (kg) |
1.3c |
1.8ab |
1.6bc |
2.0a |
0.092 |
*** |
| Testicles (g) |
179.5 |
229.8 |
279.7 |
179.8 |
19.31 |
Ns |
| Lung with trachea (g) |
248.27 |
245.7 |
383.07 |
265.15 |
15.98 |
Ns |
| small intestine (g) |
339.6 |
358.1 |
406.7 |
363.7 |
60.23 |
Ns |
| large intestine (g) |
102.3 |
190.2 |
207 |
201.2 |
28.94 |
Ns |
| TNEOC (kg) |
9.49ab |
10.5a |
9.52b |
10.23a |
0.37 |
* |
|
| a-dmean in the same row with different superscript differ significantly; ***(p<0.001);
**(p<0.01); *(P<0.05); Ns=non-significant. |
| Table 5: Non-edible offal components of Hararghe highland sheep fed natural
pasture grass hay basal diet and supplemented with dried tomato pomace and
concentrate feed |
