TY  - JOUR
T1  - Effect of Substitution of Corn Grain and Soybean Meal with Corn Gluten Feed or Corn Distiller Dried Grains and Soluble in Ruminants
AU - , N. Moujahed AU - , A. Moujahed-Raach AU - , M. Jlali AU - , T. Najar AU - , Ch. Kayouly 
JO  - Research Journal of Animal Sciences
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 5
PY  - 2009
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1993-5269
DO  - rjnasci.2009.1.5
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjnasci.2009.1.5
KW  - Substitution
KW  -soybean
KW  -corn
KW  -gluten feed
KW  -distillers dried grain and soluble
KW  -ruminants
AB  - Four Barbarine breed sheep (initial average BW and age 58 kg and 18 month, respectively), receiving a basal diet composed of oat hay, were used in a Latin square design (4×4) to study the effect of the total substitution  of  soybean  meal  (D1:  Sb:  23.5%  of  concentrate)  by  corn  distillers  dried  grains  with soluble (D2: DDGS: 45%) or corn gluten feed (D3: CGF: 65%) or a mixture of the 2 ingredients (D4: CGF+DDGS, respectively  23  and  26%)  on  intake,  digestibility  and  nitrogen  balance.  The proportion of concentrate in diet  was  adjusted  at  a  level  of  25%  of the total dry matter intake. Each experimental period lasted 28 days (21  and  7  days, respectively for adaptation and measurements). The compound feeds were approximatively iso-nitrogenous and iso-energetic. The obtained results showed that the studied corn co-products were characterized by a high quality of crude protein. The voluntary intake of hay and total diet DM were not affected by the applied substitution (average value 53.2 g DMkg<SUP>-0.75 </SUP>day<SUP>-1</SUP>). No effect of substitution was noted on DM, OM and CP digestibility or N balance. In contrast, an improvement of the digestibility of crude fiber was observed (p&lt;0.05), mainly in diet containing DDGS. The biological quality of N expressed as the ratio: Retained N/Absorbed N, seamed to be higher in SBM, DDGS and GDDS diets (averaged 30.5%) than in CGF one (26.6%). It was concluded that substituting soybean with corn co-products in concentrate supplied at a rate of 25% of DM total intake did not affect nutritive value of oat hay based ration and the studied diets were nutritionally similar.
ER  -