The importance of feed in increasing livestock productivity and benefits from livestock is stressed. Four major feed resources are identified: pastures, common property resources, forests, and fallow lands; planted forages; crop residues; and concentrate and agricultural by-products. There is a s...
Blümmel, Michael
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Hanson, Jean
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Fernández Rivera, S.
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Hansen, H.
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Bezkorowajnyj, P.G.
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[Strategy for ILRI research on feed resources]
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Strategy for ILRI research on feed resources
This study was conducted to determine the energy expenditure of draft oxen working on sandy soils, performing common agricultural tasks, so that energy requirements could be determined; to establish the relationships between work and intake and digestibility of roughages by draft oxen; to investi...
Fall, Abdou
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Pearson, R.A.
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Lawrence, P.R.
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Fernández Rivera, S.
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[Feeding and working strategies for oxen used for draft purposes in semi-arid West Africa]
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Feeding and working strategies for oxen used for draft purposes in semi-arid West Africa
Growing pearl millet and cowpea in combination with raising ruminant livestock is widely practiced in the Sahel. In this farming system, livestock feeding depends mostly on rangeland, fallows and cropland grazing. Nutritional constraints to grazing ruminants stem primarily from feed scarcity and ...
Fernández Rivera, S.
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Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y.
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Williams, Timothy O.
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Turner, M.
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Schlecht, E.
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Salla, A.
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Ayantunde, Augustine A.
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Sangare, M.
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[Nutritional constraints to grazing ruminants in the millet-cowpea- livestock farming system of the Sahel]
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Nutritional constraints to grazing ruminants in the millet-cowpea- livestock farming system of the Sahel
In response to on-going agricultural intensification, crop-livestock systems are becoming more important in West African farming systems. The role of livestock in providing stability to such systems, particularly through their interaction with the soil environment is unquestionable. Worldwide, th...
Tarawali, Shirley A.
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Larbi, Asamoah
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Fernández Rivera, S.
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Bationo, B. André
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[The contribution of livestock to soil fertility]
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The contribution of livestock to soil fertility
The influence of 0, 60 or 120 minutes of access to a grove of either Ziziphus mauritiana (Ziziphus) or Combretum aculeatum (Combretum) on forage intake and digestibility, animal growth and nutrient excretion was determined using forty intact Oudah sheep grazing for 7 h day-1 on poor quality dry s...
Sangare, M.
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Fernández Rivera, S.
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Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y.
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Pandey, V.S.
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[Influence of access to a browse grove by sheep on animal nutrition and nutrient cycling]
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Influence of access to a browse grove by sheep on animal nutrition and nutrient cycling
A greenhouse experiment was carried out at the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), at Sadord (13°15' N, 2°18'E), Niger, in conjunction with a feeding trial. Eight types of compost were made with millet stover (refusals and faeces with or without urine from s...
Sangare, M.
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Bationo, B. André
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Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y.
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Fernández Rivera, S.
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Pandey, V.S.
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[Effect of diet supplementation on the quality of composts made from faeces, urine and feed refusals]
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Effect of diet supplementation on the quality of composts made from faeces, urine and feed refusals
An experiment was conducted during the dry season in 1998 to determine the influence of supplementation with groundnut cake (GC) (0, 2.5, 5 and 7.5 g kg-1 LW) and phosphorus (P) (0 and 3 g day-1 animal) on diet and millet stover intake and digestibility, sheep growth rate and nutrient excretion. ...
Sangare, M.
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Fernández Rivera, S.
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Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y.
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Pandey, V.S.
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[Effect of supplementation with groundnut cake and phosphorus on utilisation of millet stover by sheep and excretion of nutrients]
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Effect of supplementation with groundnut cake and phosphorus on utilisation of millet stover by sheep and excretion of nutrients
L'effet de difftrents types d'amendements du Sol associes ou non au parcage nocturne de bovins dans le champ, et celui de l'application de furrier Sur la production de mil et la fertilite du Sol ont ete etudies. L'augmentation des rendements du mil dans le traitement paillage associe au parcage e...
Sangare, M.
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Fernández Rivera, S.
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Bationo, B. André
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Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y.
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Pandey, V.S.
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[Effets de differents types d'amendements sur le rendement du mil et la fertilite du sol au Sahel]
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Effets de differents types d'amendements sur le rendement du mil et la fertilite du sol au Sahel
L'effet de la quantite offerte (20, 40, 60, 80 g MS kg-1 PV) et du type de fourrage grossier (chaume de mil, paille de brouse) sur ('ingestion, la digestibilite, le gain de poids et ('excretion d'azote (N) et de phophore (P) par les ovins a ete determine au cours de la saison sache 1997, dans la ...
Sangare, M.
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Fernández Rivera, S.
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Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y.
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Pandey, V.S.
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[Influence de la quantite offerte sur l'ingestion et la digestibilite de la paille de brousse et du chaume de mil (Pennisetum glaucum L.). Repercussion sur le gain de poids et l'excretion d'elements nutritifs]
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Influence de la quantite offerte sur l'ingestion et la digestibilite de la paille de brousse et du chaume de mil (Pennisetum glaucum L.). Repercussion sur le gain de poids et l'excretion d'elements nutritifs
Vingt sept bovins de 2-4 ans, repartis en 3 lots ont ete soumis a 3 traitements (rations) pendant 11 semaines au cours de la saison seche 1996. Un lot temoin (Pn) etait nourri exclusivement sur parcours naturels par pature de 8h 6 18h. Un lot (Sm) recevait apres la pature un melange de son de mil...
Sangare, M.
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Fernández Rivera, S.
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Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y.
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Pandey, V.S.
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[Influence de la supplementation en saison seche sur la nutrition des bovins et de recyclage des elements mineraux dans un systeme de production mixte culture-elevage du Sahel]
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Influence de la supplementation en saison seche sur la nutrition des bovins et de recyclage des elements mineraux dans un systeme de production mixte culture-elevage du Sahel