Table 4.
Effect of feeding sesame meal (SM) on ewes’ body weight change and growth rate of their lambs (Experiment 2).
| Diets * | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item | SM0 (n = 10) | SM7.5 (n = 10) | SM15 (n = 10) | SEM |
| Ewes | ||||
| Initial body weight (kg) | 43.0 | 43.6 | 43.0 | 0.97 |
| Final body weight (kg) | 41.1 | 40.8 | 40.1 | 1.02 |
| Body weight change, kg | −1.9 | −2.9 | −2.9 | 0.39 |
| Lambs | ||||
| Initial body weight (kg) | 5.0 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 0.21 |
| Final body weight (kg) | 18.3 a | 19.4 b | 20.0 b | 0.29 |
| Total gain (kg) | 13.3 a | 14.6 b | 15.3 b | 0.30 |
| Average daily gain (g/d) | 238 a | 261 b | 273 b | 5.3 |
Note: * Dietary treatments are (1) no sesame meal (SM0), (2) 7.5% sesame meal (SM7.5), or (3) 15% sesame meal (SM15) of dietary dry matter (DM) in substitution of soybean meal fed for 8 weeks; a,b within a row means without a common superscript difference (p ≤ 0.05).