Productive performance of fattening Sudanese camel calves under different feeding regimes [electronic resource].

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In a fattening experiment lasted 120 day ,fifteen Sudanese camel calves (Came/us dromedaries) averaged 245 Kg live body weight (LBW) and aged 2-3 years were randomly divided into three similar groups to stUdy the effect of some different feeding regimes on their productive performance. Animals were fed individually on concentrate feed mixture (CFM) at 2, 1.5 and 1% of LBW for groups 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Treated rice straw (TRS) with urea (5%) and molasses (10%) vias offered ad lib. for all animals to decrease the feeding cost Feed intake and live body weight were recorded weekly then daily weight gain ancl feed to gain ratio were calculated. At the end of the experimental period, three animals from each group were used in digestion trail to evaluate nutrients digestibility, nutritive value and nitrogen balance.

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