Safety of Chinese Cabbage Waste and Rice Straw Mixed Silage and Its Effect on Growth and Health Performance of Hu Sheep

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

1. In the abstract The design of the experiment must be clearly stated, including the number of animals, treatments, and period of the experiment, because the abstract must be sufficient to give a general overview of the content of the manuscript. It must also be taken into account that for any abbreviations, the full name must be mentioned first, and then the abbreviations denoting them must be used successively.

2: Keywords  should be reordered according to the alphabetical order; please 

3-Line 62 should be ( co)

4- Lines 77–78: the sentence should be revised again, please

5-Line 84 not e divided into should be  chop off

6- more details should be revealed about Chinese cabbage waste

7-Line 91 Identify TRE & CON

8-Line 95 should be 50:50

9-Table 1. Experimental diet formula and nutrition composition (DM Basis/%) this table should contain the full  chemical composition of the diet

10-we randomly selected 6 Hu sheep, male or female.

11-line 121 DON, AFT, OTA and ZEN. should be in full name at the first time mentioned 

12-Line 122 ELISA kits should mention the fabrication city and country for all kits used

13-Line 138 feed of Hu sheep should be deleted.

14-line 152: six sheep of etch group COT and TRE? clarify please

15-with three 152 copies of blood taken from each sheep? this sentence should be re-written

16-2.4. Data Analysis: this section needs more clarification. please

17-Lines 290-292  in my opinion, should be removed; they are scientific facts Also, lines 293-295

18-Line 303 in my opinion, SCFA should be analyzed. Hence, you can depend on it in your discussion 

19-Conclusions so long should be shortened.

Minor editing of English language required

Author Response

Dear Reviewer:

The author has answered all of your questions. Please see the attachment.

Yours sincerely

Author

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Reviewer 2 Report

A precise description of the methodology is recommended to the Authors. The topic of the manuscript is relevant, but the results have little (and mostly regional) scientific impact. It would be helpful to have some information about the economic benefits of the study, as well (e.g. importance and value of the cabbage waste in the region).

All the detailed comments are in the attachment.

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It is recommended to review the text by a native English speaker.

Detailed comments are in the attachment.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

The author has answered all of the questions you have asked, and for some of the simpler questions have been revised in the manuscript. For the answers to a few more questions, please see the attachment.

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors considered all of the reviewer's comments and answered the questions.