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Biofuel co-products as livestock feed - Opportunities and challenges

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Use of Pongamia glabra (karanj) <strong>and</strong> Azadirachta indica (neem) seed cakes for <strong>feed</strong>ing <strong>livestock</strong> 387TABLE 9Effect on body weight changes in lambs of <strong>feed</strong>ing expellerpressed(EKC) <strong>and</strong> solvent-extracted (SKC) karanj cakeTABLE 11Effect of <strong>feed</strong>ing expeller-pressed (EKC) <strong>and</strong> solventextracted(SKC) karanj cake on blood bio-chemicals in lambsParameterGroupsDGNC EKC SKCParameterDiet groupsDGNC EKC SKCInitial body weight (kg) 11.2 9.9 10.7Final body weight 17.1 14.7 16.5Average daily gain (g) 60.5 a 48.8 b 59.6 aTotal DMI in 98 days (kg) 54.8 50.5 54.1Feed <strong>co</strong>nversion efficiency 9.2 10.6 9.3Notes: DMI = dry matter intake; DGNC: <strong>co</strong>ncentrate mixture <strong>co</strong>ntainingde-oiled groundnut cake <strong>as</strong> major protein source; EKC = <strong>co</strong>ncentratemixture replacing 50% of DGNC-N by EKC; SKC = <strong>co</strong>ncentrate mixturereplacing 50% of DGNC-N by SKC. Means with different letters in a rowdiffer significantly (P

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