does your trial includes any kind of treatment to pea ?

We believe that it is useful to conduct such a study as it is high in protein in addition to the fact that it can be available locally and provides a hard currency to buy soybeans

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Effect of Dietary Crude Protein on Productive Efficiency, Nutrient Digestibility, Blood Metabolites and Gastrointestinal Immune Markers in Light Lambs

by📷Jonathan Pelegrin-Valls,📷Beatriz Serrano-Pérez,📷Daniel Villalba,📷María José Martín-Alonso,📷Juan Ramón Bertolín,📷Margalida Joy and📷Javier Álvarez-Rodríguez

Animals 2020, 10(2), 328; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10020328

"Abstract

This study hypothesized that reducing the level of crude protein (CP) in lambs′ feed may improve nutrient utilization and did not negatively affect their productive efficiency, blood metabolites, oxidative status (OS) or intestinal immune barrier function. A total of 120 weaned male Ripollesa lambs (45–60 days old and 15.0 ± 1.5 kg of body weight) were used. Four feed concentrates were formulated for two different phases (growing and finishing): CP20/19 group (20% and 19% of CP on dry matter basis, for each phase, respectively) and CP18/17 group (18% and 17% of CP on dry matter basis, for each phase, respectively). Lambs were randomly assigned to feeding treatments by balancing initial body weight between groups. The reduction of dietary CP level did not impair their growth performance parameters, while it did improve the apparent digestibility of organic matter. Furthermore, the lambs of the CP18/17 group showed lower plasma urea levels with no effect on OS (malondialdehyde levels) or gastrointestinal immunity markers (gene expression of interleukin 10 (IL10), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFA) and transforming growth factor-β1 (TGFB))."