Table 3.
Live weight gain and feed conversion efficiency of pregnant Horro ewes supplemented with Beresa-55, Gebis-17, and concentrate mixture kept under the free-grazing conditions.
| Parameters | Treatments |
SEM |
P-level |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | T2 | T3 | |||
| Ewes | |||||
| Premating body weight (kg) | 25.85 | 26.71 | 26.29 | 0.93 | ns |
| Final body weight (kg) | 37.1a1 | 32.34b | 34.23ab | 1.16 | * |
| Body weight change (kg) | 11.24a | 5.63b | 7.94b | 0.83 | ** |
| daily weight gain (g/day) | 76.94a | 42.11c | 58.05b | 4.44 | ** |
| Lambs | |||||
| Birth weight (kg) | 3.01 | 3.42 | 3.42 | 0.21 | ns |
| Weaning weight (kg) | 10.89 | 9.87 | 11.57 | 0.9 | ns |
| Weight change (kg) | 7.89 | 6.45 | 8.15 | 0.98 | ns |
| Daily weight gain (g/day) | 87.63 | 71.67 | 90.55 | 10.89 | ns |
1Means within columns followed by different letters differ significantly (P<0.05); *=(P<0.05); **=(P<0.01), SEM= standard error of means; ; ns= not significant; T1 to T3= treatments