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Research Article

Multiple Health and Environmental Impacts of An Innovative

SJSI Livestock Feed Intake Diet

Abstract
Authors: Mahjoub feedstock diet (MFD) is an innovation primed for livestock feed.
1
Khaled Mahjoub This innovation in feed ingredients covers efficiency, profitability,
2
Rafat Al Afif environmental footprint, animal health, and welfare. This study is the
3
Majd Aljamali first to evaluate whether manure nutrients, ammonia emissions and milk
quality were affected by feeding cows with MFD compared to regular
diet. We carried out a field experiment on-farm including four dairy cows
Affiliation: to investigate the effects of the MFD feeding system on cow health,
1 Mahjoub Industrial contents of dairy products, and manure composition. The results have
Group, Damascus, Syria shown excellent cow health with antibiotic-free husbandry for several
2 University of Natural years; a privileged fatty acid profile in dairy products, i.e., a major
Resources and Life reduction in trans-fat with increased protein content and customary
Sciences, Vienna, Austria . amino acid profile; and finally, a high C: N ratio in odorless manure.
3 Faculty of Pharmacy, Furthermore, our methodology of approach was within the industry's
Damascus Univ , Syria.
conventional cost. Our cumulative results imply the preferential health
and environmental performance of the feed intake diet used in the
current research. Further research is planned and ongoing to deepen

Submitted 03 Mar 2023 understanding of MFD effect on both environment and cow/human
Accepted 03 Apr 2023 wellbeing .
Correspondence:
rafat.alafif@boku.ac.at Keywords: Mahjoub feedstock diet, milk quality, odorless manure.

Introduction rations, the environmental impact, as well as
H production responses, should be taken into
umanity is struggling to create
chemical-free, GMO-free, hormone-
account. In fact, tremendous effort was put into
free, antibiotic-free, safely clean, high-
protein nutritional food with low-to-neutral finding new livestock dietary formulas to tackle
the above-enlisted challenges around the globe
carbon and water footprints at a reasonable (3,4) . Cattles, and particularly dairy production
(1)
price . Therefore, improving the sustainability systems, significantly contribute to green house
of dairy operations is a current key goal in the gas (GHG) emissions and global warming mostly
(5)
dairy sector, and one critical task to increase through the creation of methane (CH4) . In
sustainability is to reduce environmental fact, methane is the largest contributor to
(2)
consequences from dairy production . Hence, global warming from the dairy sector, with a 28
when evaluating feedstuffs to establish their times higher impact compared to carbon
(6)
nutritional contents and inclusion rates in dairy dioxide (CO2) over a hundred-year period .

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