Effects of Cysteamine Hydrochloride Supplementation on Nutrients Digestibility in Beetal Bucks
Effects of Cysteamine Hydrochloride Supplementation on Nutrients Digestibility in Beetal Bucks
Muhammad Noman Tariq1, Saeed Ahmed*1, Ghazanfar Ali Chishti1, Muhammad Shahbaz Zafar1, Muhammad Saadullah2, Muhammad Usman1, Mohsin Ali1 and Ghulam Qadir1
ABSTRACT
The research was conducted to study the effect of Cysteamine Hydrochloride (CSH) Supplementation on nutrients digestibility in Beetal bucks. The CSH is a feed additive that increases the baseline growth hormone level by decreasing the somatostatin level. A total of Twenty-four Beetal bucks, aged 12±1 months, with an average body weight of 30±5 kg, were selected and distributed among 04 treatments in a completely randomized design under 2 × 2 factorial arrangements. There were two roughage levels with concentrates (80% and 20%) and two dietary levels of CSH (0 and 80 mg/kg/head/day). Digestibility of dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), and ether extract (EE) were calculated using total tract digestibility. Results indicated that CSH supplementation (80 mg/kg) significantly improved (P < 0.05) the digestibility of crude protein (CP) by 2.87%, ether extract (EE) by 5.98% and NDF by 5.65% in bucks fed a high concentrated diet, compared to those fed non-supplemented diets. It was concluded that CSH supplementation with roughage: concentrates (20:80) resulted in increased digestibility of CP, EE and NDF which can improve the growth performance, reduce nutrients loss and decrease the production cost in Beetal bucks.
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