Journal article
High dietary vitamin E and selenium improves feed intake and weight gain of finisher lambs and maintains redox homeostasis under hot conditions
SS Chauhan, EN Ponnampalam, P Celi, DL Hopkins, BJ Leury, FR Dunshea
Small Ruminant Research | Published : 2016
Abstract
The present study was conducted to elucidate the role of dietary vitamin E (Vit E) and selenium (Se) on the oxidative status of lambs exposed to short term hot conditions during finishing. Forty-eight lambs (crossbred; 42 ± 2 kg body weight, 7 mo age) were allocated to one of three groups (16 per group) and fed 3 different doses of Vit E and Se. A standard finisher pellet ration (17% CP and 12.57 MJ ME/kg DM) was used as the basis of treatment diets. The doses of Vit E and Se for control (CON), moderate (MOD), and supranutritional (SUP) diets were 28, 130, 228 mg/kg DM as α- tocopherol acetate and 0.16, 0.66, 1.16 mg Se as SelPlex™ kg/DM, respectively. After 4 weeks feeding in individual pen..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge the technical assistance provided by Dr. Michelle Henry, Maree Cox, and Dr. Kristy DiGiacomo, during the live phase of the experiment. Research described herein was funded by the Australian Meat Processor Corporation and Meat Livestock Australia under the grant A.MQA. 0014. Surinder S. Chauhan received the Australian Awards (scholarship) from Department of Foreign Affair and Trade Australia and was granted study leave by Government of Himachal Pradesh, India, for his PhD at The University of Melbourne, Australia.