Effects of phosalone consumption via feeding with or without sodium bentonite on performance, blood metabolites and its transition to milk of Iranian Baluchi sheep

Table 2 DM intake, Feed efficiency, OM and DM digestibility, and weight characteristics of ewes following treated ration consumption in two experimental periods

Item	Period 1 (week 5)				SEM	Period 2 (week 9)				SEM
Item	P1	P2	P3	P4	SEM	P1	P2	P3	P4	SEM
Feed
DMI (kg/day)	1.17	1.27	1.20	1.40	0.07	1.32	1.39	1.36	1.40	0.03
DMI (kg DMI/kg BW)	0.027	0.029	0.027	0.031	0.002	0.030	0.031	0.030	0.030	0.0002
DMI (kg DMI/kg MW)	0.070	0.074	0.070	0.081	0.004	0.077	0.080	0.078	0.079	0.002
Feed Efficiency (kg Milk/kg DMI)	0.92	0.83	0.92	0.85	0.08	0.83^ab	0.74^b	0.85^ab	0.98^a	0.07
DM digestibility (%)	66.25	66.16	67.56	67.86	0.55	66.31^b	67.07^ab	67.15^ab	67.56^a	0.28
OM digestibility (%)	68.26^ab	67.60^b	68.26^ab	68.71^a	0.26	67.40^b	67.94^b	68.82^a	68.97^a	0.29
Weight characteristics
BW (kg)	43.00	44.42	44.74	44.80	0.87	43.72	45.12	45.58	45.76	0.86
BW gain (kg/day)	0.002	0.016	0.010	0.007	0.004	0.034	0.033	0.040	0.046	0.004

^a,bValues containing different letters in each row are significantly different (P < 0.05)
P1 = control without phosalone and sodium bentonite (SB); P2 = phosalone given at dose of 280 mg/day/ewe; P3 = phosalone (280 mg/ewe/day) and SB (32 g/ewe/day) fed for 63 consecutive days; Treatment P4 = feeding SB with concentration of 32 g/ewe/day