The use of dairy cows manure in fattining Awaasi lambs

Abstract

Lambing in Iraq usually being during fall season. Male lambs usually sent to slaughter house after weaning due to high prices of concentrates. Therefore it is the objective of this study to find a low cost non—conventional feed staff to be used for fattening lambs to increase meat production and consequently increase return of the owners. Four different rations were used in this experiment.Ration(1) as a control ' ration(2) contained 1% urea ' ration (3) contained 11.5% of dairy cows manure treated with urea and formaldehyde and ration (4) contained 10% untreated dairy cows manure. All rations were isocaloric—isoprotein and all treatments were assigned at random to 24 male Awassi lambs at a rate of 2.25% of live body weight. Results indicated that average daily gain for treatments 1'2'3'and 4 were 146 , 182, 126 ,and 161 gm. Per day respectively.