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and applied four dietary treatments to them. First group received diet containing 88.5%
brewers’ dried grain as control (T0) while in other treatments they replaced brewers’ dried

grain with citrus pulp at the level of 25 (T1), 50 (T2) and 75% (T3). They reported that blood
glucose level increased with increasing the level of citrus pulp in the diet while blood

protein levels were greater for the treatment T2 and T3 as compared to other treatments.

Cooke et al. (2007) evaluated the effect of molasses based and citrus pulp based
concentrate on blood urea nitrogen and blood glucose level in Brahman-crossbred females.

They divided the animals into two equal groups and provided two types of concentrate to
them. One group received the concentrate having 78.3% molasses while the other group

received concentrate with 74.7% citrus pulp. They reported that concentrations of blood

urea nitrogen were greater for the group received molasses based concentrate because
molasses contain greater amount of rumen degradable protein and contain more non-protein

nitrogen as compared to citrus pulp. Blood glucose level was greater for the group received

citrus pulp based concentrate because it contain a high amount of pectin as compared to
molasses.

Santos et al. (2014) performed an experiment to check out the effect of feeding
various levels of DCP to Holstein cows on blood metabolites. They formulated four diets,

3 containing soybean oil, citrus pulp 9% and citrus pulp 18%, respectively. While fourth
diet was control. At the end of the experiment, they reported that there was no significant

effect of all diets on blood glucose.

Ahooei et al. (2011) executed trial to assess the effect of DCP on blood metabolites
in fattening swine male calves. Twenty fattening swine male calves were equally divided

in four experimental groups allocating four experimental diets with or without urea
following urea and DCP (control), 12% DCP + 0% urea, 0% DCP + 0.65% urea, 12% DCP

+ 0.65% urea. All experimental diets consisted of 35% forage (corn silage) and 65%
concentrate. The experiment lasted for 100 days (15 days adaptation period and 85 days

experimental period). Results revealed that there was a non-significant effect of DCP on

blood glucose and blood urea nitrogen. While a slight increase in blood glucose was
observed diet with DCP was fed. While blood urea nitrogen decreased with inclusion of

DCP in diet.

Belibasakis and Tsirgogianni (1996) conducted a research to investigate the effect

of DCP on blood metabolites in dairy cows. They selected twenty Friesian cows and

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