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Abstract The reduction in local feedstuffs resources for livestock is considered one of the main constrains for increasing and developing animal production in Egypt. The annually nutri tiona! gap between I ivestock demands and local nutritional resources has been estimated to be 3.5 million tons of total digestible nutrients (Abo Akkada & Nour 1985). One of the available solutions for this problem is to use non traditional feeding resources such as non-edible by- products and wastes logs to be incorporated into the rations of 1 ivestock which are capable utilizing them as stuffs to e edible meat, milk or others for human consumption. The only 1 imitation is to obtain these stuffs as cheaper as possible than the traditional one and not cause any health hazard for the consumer. One of these non traditional feeds is to add fat on the ration of ruminants. There are basically two reasons for the addition of fat to the diet of the ruminants animal, first, to act as an energy source and, second, to influence the composition of the final animal products inparticular desired direction (Clapperton & Steel 1983b). Soya lecithine and sunflower soapstock are by products of oil and soap manufacture. They are considered types of fat sources and feeding fat for ruminants of interest for several reasons. One of these reasons is their high energy density so that they can be used as energy sources to substitute for a part of the grains in the diet (specially yellow corn) and this can increase production during early lactation when cows fail to consume sufficient energy and offered a mean of producing animal products with a fatty composition wich coincides with the consumer preference. Morever, the other most important benefit for using these byproducts is to reduce pollution and aid in solving one of the animal production constraints without expensing the government foreign currency. |