Original scientific paper
IN VITRO DRY MATTER DIGESTIBILITY OF RETAM RAETAM LEAVES AND THE EFFECT OF THE ADDITION OF SOME AROMATIC PLANTS TO THE INCUBATION MEDIA
Fowad Akraim
orcid.org/0000-0002-7293-2419
; Animal production department, Faculty of agriculture, Omar Al-Mukhtar University, Libya
I. S. Milad
; Animal production department, Faculty of agriculture, Omar Al-Mukhtar University, Libya
A. Al Zahaff
; Agricultural research center, Sebh, Libya
Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate the digestibility of Retama raetam leaves and the effect of the addition of Rosmarinus officinalis or Salvia officinalis to the incubation media. R. raetam samples (0.5 g control) or (0.4 g of R. raetam + 0.1 g of R. officinalis or S. officinalis dried leaves) were incubated with sheep rumen liquid for 12 hours and 24 hours. In vitro dry matter digestibility of R. raetam leaves was 39.10% and 42.39% after 12h and 24h of incubation with rumen fluid respec¬tively. The addition of aromatic plants did not affect the in Vitro dry matter digest¬ibility of R. raetam leaves (p<0.05).
Keywords
Retama raetam; in vitro; rumen; aromatic plants
Hrčak ID:
124176
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Publication date:
26.6.2014.
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