Meta-Analysis of the Crud Protein, Organic Matter, Crud fat, NDF and Crud Energy of Alhagi Planet

Alhagi is one of the shrubs that is well adapted to the salinity environmental conditions.
This plant can grow on most soils, even on soils with a white layer of salt and due to the
appropriate nutritional value of Alhagi, it can also be used in animal feed ration. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the nutritional value of this plant in livestock feeding. In this study, through structured searches on Internet networks inside and outside the country, published articles about the chemical-compositions of Alhagi were surveyed. Alhagi chemical compositions was created and Meta-Analysis was performed using R software (metapackage). So, the confidence-intervals and heterogeneity of each study were also calculated. The results showed that the amount of Organic-Matter, Protein, Fat, Ash, NDF, Non-Fiber- Carbohydrate (%DM) and Energy (kcal/kg), were 91.0, 11.0, 1.6, 9.0, 41.7, 37.1 and 4019.2, respectively, and so the heterogeneity of this plant were zero, 81.3, 94.4, 74.6, 88.6, 92.4 and zero percent respectively. The most homogeneity among the studies was for Organic-Matter and Energy. Totally, Alhagi with a suitable nutritional value that grows well in the central desert of Iran with the mentioned chemical-compositions can be used in the livestocks feed.