TY  - JOUR
AU  - Aung, Min 
AU  - Kyawt, Yin Yin 
AU  - Htun, Moe Thida 
AU  - Mu, Khin San 
AU  - Aung, Aung 
PY  - 2015
TI  - Effect of Inclusion of Albizia saman Pods in the Diet on the Performances of Dairy Cows
JF  - American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 1
DO  - 10.3844/ajavsp.2016.41.46
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajavsp.2016.41.46
AB  - Ruminants can achieve high productivity when the diet includes concentrates; however these are often expensive due to competition with humans and mono-gastric animals. This experiment was conducted to determine the effect of partial inclusion of Albizia saman pods (ASP) in a Commercial Concentrate (CC) on the performances of dairy cows. Twelve cross-bred Holstein Friesian cows (472±13 kg) in the 12th week of lactation were randomly allocated into four treatment groups with three replicates accoding to the completely randomized design. The four treatments were control diet-CD [35% urea-treated-rice-straw (URS; 79g crude protein (CP)/ kg dry matter (DM)) and 65% CC (contained 40% cottonseed cake, 35% broken chickpea and 25% chickpea husk on an as fed basis and provided 200g CP/kg DM)], D1[35% URS + 60% CC + 5% ASP (189g CP/kg DM)], D2 (35% URS +55% CC + 10% ASP) and D3 (35% URS + 50% CC + 15% ASP). Cows were fed treatments for 60 days. Dry matter intake was significantly higher (p