Skip to main content

Table 7 Non-edible offal components of Farta sheep fed urea-treated rice straw and supplemented with dried Sesbania sesban leaves

From: Nutrient intake, digestibility, growth performance and carcass characteristics of Farta sheep fed urea-treated rice straw supplemented with graded levels of dried Sesbania sesban leaves

Non-edible offal

Treatment

T 1

T 2

T 3

T 4

T 5

SL

Head without tongue (kg)

1.21a

1.24a

1.43a

1.4a

1.58a

NS

Skin (g)

1.68b

1.93ab

1.94ab

2.1ab

2.43a

*

Penis (g)

41.7a

49.93a

52.25a

55.3a

56.55a

NS

Feet (g)

514.13a

515.10a

531.03a

560.10a

553.25a

NS

Lung with trachea (g)

262.15b

305.5ab

305.6ab

315.4ab

380.55a

*

Spleen (g)

21.28c

24.65c

29.55bc

35.85ab

39.48a

**

Esophagus (g)

33a

33.39a

35.88a

39.75a

39.15a

NS

Gull bladder with bile (g)

5.5a

5.75a

10.7a

8.03a

10.88a

NS

Bladder

21.25b

26.43ab

23.28ab

38.6ab

54.48a

*

Gut content (kg)

5.35a

4.68a

4.85a

4.53a

4.44a

NS

Total non-edible offal (kg)

6.278b

6.279b

7.01ab

8.06ab

8.7a

*

  1. SL significance level, NS nonsignificant
  2. a, bMeans with the same letter in the same row are not significantly different,*P < 0.05; **P < 0.01