Influence of Maternal and Postweaning Linseed Dietary Supplementation on Growth Rate, Lipid Profile, and Meat Quality Traits of Light Sarda Lambs

Table 2

Effect of linseed supplementation on the fatty acid profile (g/100 g of total fatty acids methyl esters) of milk.

	Maternal diet			SEM
	CTR	EL-10	EL-20
C4:0	3.38	3.61	3.39	0.081	0.433
C6:0	2.84	2.51	1.83	0.108	<0.001
C8:0	2.97	2.44	1.53	0.148	<0.001
C10:0	9.38	7.06	4.54	0.494	<0.001
C11:0	0.46	0.30	0.25	0.031	0.004
C12:0	5.23	3.91	2.51	0.272	<0.001
C13:0	0.20	0.15	0.10	0.010	<0.001
C14:0	11.46	9.64	8.04	0.350	<0.001
C14:1	0.27	0.17	0.11	0.016	<0.001
C15:0	1.18	1.15	1.03	0.021	0.003
C16:0	26.38	21.55	18.95	0.754	<0.001
C16:1	1.54	1.16	0.95	0.060	<0.001
C17:0	0.82	0.79	0.70	0.017	0.002
C17:1	0.25	0.21	0.15	0.010	<0.001
C18:0	6.58	9.38	10.90	0.450	<0.001
C18:1 trans-9	0.38	0.67	0.75	0.039	<0.001
C18:1 trans-11	2.28	4.27	7.22	0.439	<0.001
C18:1 cis-9	14.28	17.55	18.69	0.462	<0.001
C18:2 trans-9, trans-12	0.04	0.14	0.35	0.033	<0.001
C18:2 cis-9, cis-12	2.79	2.81	2.81	0.020	0.883
C18:2 cis-9, trans-11	0.72	1.44	2.18	0.145	<0.001
C18:3 n-3	1.14	1.53	1.96	0.082	<0.001
C18:3 n-6	0.04	0.02	0.01	0.005	0.010
C20:0	0.28	0.28	0.27	0.004	0.694
C20:4 n-6	0.16	0.07	0.03	0.014	0.002
C20:5 n-3	0.04	0.05	0.05	0.004	0.586
C21:0	0.07	0.06	0.05	0.009	0.636
C22:0	0.11	0.14	0.14	0.009	0.250
C22:5 n-3	0.11	0.12	0.12	0.004	0.559
C22:6 n-3	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.002	0.417
C23:0	0.07	0.06	0.06	0.010	0.984
C24:0	0.05	0.04	0.04	0.008	0.893
n-6/n-3	2.26	1.72	1.48	0.084	<0.001
SFA	71.46	63.07	54.32	1.707	<0.001
PUFA	5.11	6.25	7.61	0.251	<0.001
MUFA	19.02	24.03	27.88	0.885	<0.001
P/S	0.07	0.10	0.14	0.007	<0.001

CTR: diet without extruded linseed; EL-10: diet containing 100 g/kg of extruded linseed; EL-20: diet containing 200 g/kg of extruded linseed; SFA, saturated fatty acids; MUFA, monounsaturated fatty acids; PUFA, polyunsaturated fatty acids; P/S, polyunsaturated/saturated fatty acids.
Means with different superscript within the same row differ.