Degradability characteristics of oats hay (harvested at milk stage), oats straw, wheat middlings and forage legumes (lablab (Lablab purpureus)) hay, leaves of sesbania (Sesbania sesban) and tagasaste (Chamaecytisus palmensis)) were evaluated in three sheep given native hay supplemented with cott...
Umunna, N.N.
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Nsahlai, I.V.
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Osuji, P.O.
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[Degradability of forage protein supplements and their effects on the kinetics of digestion and passage]
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Degradability of forage protein supplements and their effects on the kinetics of digestion and passage
This study investigated the effects of supplementing oat hay (OH; milk stage at harvest) with 250 g(as-fed) of either lablab (Dolichos lablab, 50 percent flowering at harvest) hay or sun dried leaves of sesbania (Sesbania sesban) with or without 91 g dry matter (DM) of crushed maize grain on rume...
Nsahlai, I.V.
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Umunna, N.N.
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[Sesbania and lablab supplementation of oat hay basal diet fed to sheep with or without maize grain]
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Sesbania and lablab supplementation of oat hay basal diet fed to sheep with or without maize grain
Effect of supplementation with non-conventional agro-industrial by-products on rumen fermentation pattern and microbial nitrogen supply was studied in sheep fed grass hay for 9 days. Diets consisted of hay alone (control); hay supplemented with tela atella (traditional brewery residue); katikala ...
Mekasha, Yoseph
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Tegegne, Azage
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Yami, A.
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Umunna, N.N.
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Nsahlai, I.V.
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[Effects of supplementation of grass hay with non-conventional agro-industrial by-products on rumen fermentation characteristics and microbial nitrogen supply in rams]
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Effects of supplementation of grass hay with non-conventional agro-industrial by-products on rumen fermentation characteristics and microbial nitrogen supply in rams
Forty-four crossbred steers were used in a 252-day trial to assess the feeding value of forages from two cereal-legume cropping systems Cropping system 1 comprised oat-vetch (Avena sativa-Vicia dasycarpa), wheat-trifolium (Triticum aestivum-Trifolium steudneri), teff (Eragrostis tef) and cowpea )...
Umunna, N.N.
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Osuji, P.O.
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Nsahlai, I.V.
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[Strategic supplementation of crossbred steers fed forages from cereal-legume cropping systems with cowpea hay]
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Strategic supplementation of crossbred steers fed forages from cereal-legume cropping systems with cowpea hay
This study investigated the effect of feeding oats hay alone or with 250 g of dolichos lablab (Lablab purpureus, 50 percent flowering at harvest) hay, wheat middlings, leaves of sesbania (Sesbania sesban) or tagasaste (Chamaecytisus palmensis) on the growth of 66 Ethiopian Menz sheep and the nutr...
Umunna, N.N.
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Osuji, P.O.
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Nsahlai, I.V.
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Khalili, H.
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Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.
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[Effect of supplementing oat hay with lablab, sesbania, tagasaste or wheat middlings on voluntary intake, N utilization and weight gain of Ethiopian Menz sheep]
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Effect of supplementing oat hay with lablab, sesbania, tagasaste or wheat middlings on voluntary intake, N utilization and weight gain of Ethiopian Menz sheep
A metabolism trial on nitrogen and energy utilization was conducted using thirty male crossbred calves blocked by age and randomly assigned to one of the dietary treatment consisting of ad libitum tef straw alone or supplemented with three levels (0.5, 1 and 1.5 percent of the body weight) of cow...
Ebro, A.
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Umunna, N.N.
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Yami, A.
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Nsahlai, I.V.
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[Effect of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and Lablab (Lablab purpureus) hay supplementation on nitrogen and energy utilization in calves fed tef (Eragrostis tef) straw]
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Effect of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and Lablab (Lablab purpureus) hay supplementation on nitrogen and energy utilization in calves fed tef (Eragrostis tef) straw