Treatments |
Edible offal |
T1 |
T2 |
T3 |
T4 |
SEM |
SL |
Blood (g) |
489.62 |
606.82 |
699.27 |
569.00 |
43.70 |
Ns |
Empty gut (kg) |
1.1 |
1.4 |
1.4 |
1.4 |
0.082 |
Ns |
Heart (g) |
57.28 |
63.98 |
63.2 |
62.6 |
4.89 |
Ns |
Heart fat (g) |
24.53c |
29.32bc |
41.22a |
36.47ab |
2.65 |
** |
Liver (g) |
228.5b |
311.5a |
311.6a |
330.0a |
17.79 |
** |
Kidney (g) |
44.5b |
52.98a |
55.8a |
52.5a |
1.99 |
** |
Kidney fat (g) |
31.0b |
74.6a |
47.3b |
68.9a |
6.89 |
** |
Reticulo-rumen (g) |
380.6 |
386.7 |
370.7 |
336.9 |
22.03 |
Ns |
Omental fat (g) |
27.2c |
75.9b |
82.6b |
125.9a |
22.03 |
*** |
Omaso-abomasum (g) |
110.1 |
141.6 |
132.4 |
147.9 |
12.89 |
Ns |
Tail (kg) |
0.301 |
0.540 |
0.591 |
0.585 |
0.100 |
Ns |
Tongue (g) |
55.5 |
64.8 |
59.7 |
58.9 |
2.89 |
Ns |
TEOC (kg) |
2.86b |
3.78a |
3.85a |
3.76a |
0.22a |
* |
|
a-cmean in the same row with different superscript differ significantly; ***(p<0.001); **(p<0.01); *(P<0.05); Ns=non-significant. |
Table 4: Edible offal components of Hararghe highland sheep fed natural pasture grass hay basal diet and supplemented with dried tomato pomace and concentrate feed. |