Author/Authors :
Kassim, Waleed Y. Department of Animal Production - College of Agriculture - University of Basrah, Iraq , AL-Asadi, Falah A. Department of Animal Production - College of Agriculture - University of Basrah, Iraq , Mohsen, Basim S. Department of Animal Production - College of Agriculture - University of Basrah, Iraq
Abstract :
A total of eighteen healthy lambs, divided randomly into three groups (six animals for each group) as
follows: 1) control group, 2) T1 treated a mixed amino acid at a dose 10g/head orally, 3) T2 treated a mixture amino
acid at a dose 20g/head orally, to investigate the effect of treatment with a mixture of amino acids on some biochemical
parameters (albumin, cholesterol, glucose, Fe, Zn, TSH and thyroid hormone), wool growth (crude weight, clean
weight and fiber length) and carcass trails (weights of the hot carcass, shoulders, legs, ribs, the fat tail, lion, heart, liver,
lungs and kidney) in Arabi lambs. The results showed significant (P<0.05) differences among treated groups in some
biochemical parameters such as albumin, cholesterol glucose, TSH and thyroid hormone. T2 group was higher in
those parameters especially after 90 days of treatment compared with the other groups. No significant differences were
presented between groups in the concentrations of Fe and Zn. Also, the results showed increased significantly (P<0.05)
in wool and carcass characterizes when lams treated with 20g/head of mixture amino acid compared with other groups,
in spite of, there were no significant differences between groups in some cuts such as the weights of lion, heart, liver,
lungs and kidney.
Keywords :
Amino acids , Biochemical parameters , Wool growth , Carcass characterizes , Arabi lambs