Effect of Dietary Grape Pomace on Growth Performance,Organ Index and Blood Biochemical Indexes in Sheep

This experiment was aimed to investigate the effect of grape pomace on growth performance,organ index and blood biochemical indexes in sheep.A total of 24 hybrid 5-month-old Dorper (♂)×Small Tail Han sheep (♀) F1 male lambs weighted at 25 kg were randomly divided into 4 groups with 6 lambs per group.All these sheep were fed diets with the addition of grape pomace at 0,5%,10%,20% on a dry weight basis, respectively.The results showed that the ADG in group 10% was extremely significantly higher than that in group 0 and 5% (P<0.01),and the weights of liver and kidney in group 10% were notably higher than that in group 0 and 5% (P<0.05).The weights of large intestinein in group 10% and 20% were obviously higher than that in the other two groups (P<0.05).The weights of abomasum were extremely significantly increased in grape pomace supplemental groups (P<0.01).Grape pomace could significantly improve serum HDL-C,and it was the highest in group 10% (P<0.05).ALT and AST had the same variation trend,they were the lowest in group 5%,and the values in group 5% were significantly lower than that in group 0 and 20% (P<0.05).Compared with group 0,the serum CRE in group 5% was significantly decreased (P<0.05),while the serum T-AOC significantly improved (P<0.05).The CAT enzyme activity was highest in group 20%,it was higher than the other groups (P<0.05).In conclusion,adding grape pomace properly could improve ADG,promote development of liver,kidney and digestive organs,increas serum HDL-C level,and improv the level of serum antioxidant.Taking all factors into account,dietary supplementation with 10% of grape pomace was advisable.