استخدام مسحوق بذور الحلبة كاضافات غذائية في علائق الابقار الشرابية المحلية و تاثيرھا في انتاج الحليب و تركيبه الكيمياوي

Nine dairy cows were used in this study, which were selected from the herd of Sharabi cows belonging to Rashidiya Station, Agricultural Research Department, Nineveh, so that they were close in weight (390 ± 35 kg), their productive season (second and third) and in their first month after birth. They were divided into three groups and fed an individual diet according to weight and productivity developments for six weeks, where fenugreek seed powder was added as food additives to the control diet at a rate of 50 or 100 gm/cow/day in the second and third groups, respectively, while the group fed The first was on the control diet only, during which the quantities of milk produced were calculated and the milk samples were chemically analyzed. The results indicated that the quantities of feed intake increased significantly (A ≤ 0.05) in the third group of cows, and significantly (A ≤ 0.05) the production of regular milk, modified milk and the percentage of fat in milk in the second and third groups of cows, respectively. Compared to those in the first group, the second and third groups of cows were also significantly (p ≤ 0.05) superior in the rate of efficiency of production of one kilogram of regular milk or modified milk, and the costs of producing one kilogram of milk were mathematically reduced over those cows in the first group (group the control). The results showed that the use of 100 gm of fenugreek seed powder/cow/day improved milk production and the percentage of fat in it.