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
A static model for predicting either the growth rates or digestible organic matter (DOMI) required to meet predetermined levels of growth is developed. Parameters in the model were derived using data collected in ILRI-DZ laboratory from 6 growth studies (involving a total of 242 Ethiopian Menz sh...
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 characterized the degradability of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and Dolichos lablab (Lablab purpureus) hays (trial 1) and the effect of these legumes on rumen ammonia concentration (RAC), particulate passage rate (K1) and intake (trial 2) and the degradability of teff (Eragrostis tef) st...
Ebro, A.
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Umunna, N.N.
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Nsahlai, I.V.
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Osuji, P.O.
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Yami, A.
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[The effect of supplementing teff (Eragrostis tef) straw with graded levels of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and lablab (Lablab purpureus) hays on degradation, rumen particulate passage and intake by crossbred (Friesian X Boran (Zebu)) calves]
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The effect of supplementing teff (Eragrostis tef) straw with graded levels of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and lablab (Lablab purpureus) hays on degradation, rumen particulate passage and intake by crossbred (Friesian X Boran (Zebu)) calves
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
Six rumen cannulated sheep (26.1 (s.d. 2.24 kg live weight) given maize stover ad libitum were supplemented with either sunflower cake (SFC), decorticated cottonseed (CSC) or noug cakes (NGC) with or without crushed maize grain. The 6x6 Latin-square experiment studied the degradation properties o...
Sibanda, S.
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Osuji, P.O.
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Nsahlai, I.V.
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[The degradation of oilseed cakes and their effects on the intake and rumen degradability of maize stover given to Ethiopian Menz sheep]
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The degradation of oilseed cakes and their effects on the intake and rumen degradability of maize stover given to 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
Two trials on rumen ammonia concentration and amount of microbial nitrogen supplied were conducted at the International Livestock Research Institute, Debre Zeit Station, with calves fed a basal diet of tef (Eragrostis tef) straw supplemented with three levels of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) or Labl...
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 Dolichos lablab (Lablab purpureus) hay supplementation on ammonia concentration and microbial-N supply in calves fed tef (Eragrostis tef) straw]
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Effect of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and Dolichos lablab (Lablab purpureus) hay supplementation on ammonia concentration and microbial-N supply in calves fed tef (Eragrostis tef) straw