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Assessment of Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a Feed Additive to Improve the Metabolic Status and Reproductive Performance of Farafra Ewes in Arid Subtropical Regions

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Last updated: 13 Jan 2025

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Animal and poultry production

Abstract

This work studied the effect of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (SC) supplementation on the metabolic, hormonal and reproductive efficiency of Farafra ewes in arid subtropical regions. Eighteen ewes were assigned randomly into three equal groups (6 ewes each). The treatments were C, T1, and T2, representing dietary supplementation of SC at 0, 1, and 1.5 g/h/d, respectively. Blood samples were collected from the jugular vein and the biochemical parameters were measured monthly during the experiment. The results showed non-significant effect in total protein, albumin, globulin, AST, ALT, ALP, urea-N, creatinine, total cholesterol, tri-glycerides, T3, and T4 among treatment. Whereas the concentrations of glucose increased (P<0.05) significantly in SC groups than control. The elevated conception rate was recorded for SC-treated ewes (100%) compared with (66.67%) extent of control. Also, SC significantly (P≤0.05) improved reproductive ability, lambs born per ewes joined and lambs born or weaned per ewe lambed. The presented results concluded that SC could enhance metabolic status and reproductive efficiency of Farafra ewes in arid subtropical regions.

DOI

10.21608/nvjas.2025.341880.1299

Keywords

Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Farafra Ewes, reproductive performance, antioxidant

Authors

First Name

Asmaa

Last Name

Harby

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Animal and Poultry Production, Faculty of Agriculture, New Valley University, El-Kharaga 72511, New Valley, Egypt.

Email

adyahmed1997@gmail.com

City

El-Kharag

Orcid

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First Name

Ayman

Last Name

Mohamed kasaab

MiddleName

Youssef

Affiliation

Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Univ. of New Valley, Egypt

Email

ayman15@agr.nvu.edu.eg

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Orcid

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

KHOLIF

MiddleName

E.

Affiliation

Dairy Science Department, National Research Centre

Email

ae_kholif@live.com

City

El-Kharag

Orcid

0000-0003-0472-4770

First Name

Hatem

Last Name

Hamdon

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Univ. of New Valley, Egypt

Email

hamdon@agr.nvu.edu.eg

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Volume

4

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

50937

Issue Date

2024-10-01

Receive Date

2024-12-01

Publish Date

2024-10-01

Print ISSN

2805-2420

Online ISSN

2805-2439

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https://nvjas.journals.ekb.eg/article_403992.html

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403,992

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Original Research

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2,101

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Publication Title

New Valley Journal of Agricultural Science

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https://nvjas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Assessment of Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a Feed Additive to Improve the Metabolic Status and Reproductive Performance of Farafra Ewes in Arid Subtropical Regions

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13 Jan 2025