@article{article_243734, title={Effect of feeding chemical and microbial treated barley straw on performance and some serum biochemical attributes of Karadi lambs}, journal={KSÜ Doğa Bilimleri Dergisi}, volume={14}, pages={29–38}, year={2011}, DOI={10.18016/ksujns.44511}, author={Hassan, Shaker and Sadıq, Sarwar and Hassan, Khasraw}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; text-indent: 14.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr; tab-stops: 456.0pt right 564.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <strong> <span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">Abstract : </span> </strong> <span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">Fifteen Karadi male lambs ( live-weight 25 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">+ </span>0.377 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>kg and 5 months old) were used to study the effect of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>feeding lambs with untreated straw(US) or urea treated straw (UTS) or fungi treated straw (FTS) respectively on daily dry matter intake(DMI), live weight <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gain(LWG) and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>some liver and kidney functions [glutamate oxaloacetate <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>transaminase (GOT) , glutamate pyruvate <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>transaminase (GPT) and urea-N,(SUN) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>] as well as serum glucose <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>( SG) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>,total protein (STP) and cholesterol (SC) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of karadi lambs. Results revealed that PTS treatment improved DMI and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>LWG as compared with US or UTS treatments . There were not different among different experimental groups in SG. Generally all the concentration means of SG were within the normal range of sheep .SUN <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pointed out to (P<0.05) differences among treatments in favor of chemical treatment which recorded the highest (P<0.01) SUN concentration in comparison with the other treatments . The SUN level ranged from 10 to 25 mg/dl. STP was significant (P<0.01) differences among treatments in favor of fungal treatment which recorded the highest (P<0.01) STP (4.20 mg/dl) in comparison with the other treatments.SC values indicate a significant (P<0.05) differences among treatments in favor of urea and fungi treatments which was the lowest (P<0.05) in comparison with the control group (untreated) . GOT and GPT values showed a significant differences among different experimental groups. However, higher (P<0.05) GOT and GPT values were assessed for urea group (10 3 and 28 IU/L), respectively. While, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fungi <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>treatment had an intermediate values for GOT and GPT (86 and 24 IU/L.) respectively . On contrast, the control groups recorded the lowest (P<0.05) GOT and GPT values, (65and 20 IU/L). </span> <span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ;" lang="EN-US">In conclusio </span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">n, according to the results its seem that the possibility of biological methods of straw treatment has a great appeal as an alternative to the use of expensive <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>chemicals. </span> </span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; text-indent: 14.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr; tab-stops: 456.0pt right 564.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> <strong>Key words: </strong> Lambs, chemical and microbial treatments, performance, blood parameters, barley straw </span> </span> </p>}, number={3}, publisher={Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Üniversitesi}