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Application of some trees/shrubs in ruminant feeding: a review

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Abstract

Ruminants play an important role in supplying human nutritional requirements. Given the increasing number of livestock and the limited resources to supply feedstuffs in order to feed ruminants, scientists are seeking ways to add to the ruminants’ diets parts of trees and shrubs and to replace concentrates competitive with human food. A consequent positive result could be reduction of the costs for meat and milk yield. On the other hand, these feeds could contain some anti-nutritional factors such as tannins that can limit their use. In this paper, the use of components of some trees and shrubs as part of ruminant (cattle, sheep and goat) diets as well as their positive and negative effects on domestic animal productivity are reviewed.

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  • 19 February 2019

    Unfortunately, in the original publication the article type was inadvertently published as “Original Paper”. The corrected article type should read as “Review Paper”.

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Financial support by Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Grant Number 17.16.4.8774 is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Animal Science, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran

    Alireza Seidavi, Masomeh Tavakoli & Behrouz Rasouli

  2. Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

    Mirco Corazzin

  3. Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, Estado de México, Mexico

    Abdelfattah Z. M. Salem

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Seidavi, A., Tavakoli, M., Rasouli, B. et al. Application of some trees/shrubs in ruminant feeding: a review. Agroforest Syst 94, 1353–1364 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-018-0313-8

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