Browse Plant as a Supplement for Small Ruminant Production in Ethiopia

Takele Feyera

ISBN 10: 3659976482 / ISBN 13: 9783659976483

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Okt 2016, 2016

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Neuware -Legume crop residues have better feeding potential than their cereal counterpart residues. Even though vetch is produced at high level in the western part of Oromia (Ethiopian), farmers are not using vetch haulm as livestock feed resources rather used as organic fertilized due to their wrong perception on the feeding value of vetch haulm. To change the perception of the farmers towards vetch haulm (Lathyrus sativus haulm), feeding trial was performed using a yearling lambs. This book, therefore, provides relevant information on the feeding value of sole vetch haulm as well as vetch haulm supplemented with meal of locally available browse plant (Acacia albida) in sheep. In this book, it was highlighted that farmers can keep their animal at a least for a period of four months only by feeding vetch haulm where such successes cannot be achieved by feeding reside from cereal crops. Moreover, ad libitum feeding with vetch haulm supplemented with protein source from A. albida was suggested as fattening ration for sheep.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Browse Plant as a Supplement for Small Ruminant Production in Ethiopia
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Okt 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659976482
• ISBN 13: 9783659976483
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 6D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 6 millimeters depth
• Weight: 149 grams

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Synopsis

Legume crop residues have better feeding potential than their cereal counterpart residues. Even though vetch is produced at high level in the western part of Oromia (Ethiopian), farmers are not using vetch haulm as livestock feed resources rather used as organic fertilized due to their wrong perception on the feeding value of vetch haulm. To change the perception of the farmers towards vetch haulm (Lathyrus sativus haulm), feeding trial was performed using a yearling lambs. This book, therefore, provides relevant information on the feeding value of sole vetch haulm as well as vetch haulm supplemented with meal of locally available browse plant (Acacia albida) in sheep. In this book, it was highlighted that farmers can keep their animal at a least for a period of four months only by feeding vetch haulm where such successes cannot be achieved by feeding reside from cereal crops. Moreover, ad libitum feeding with vetch haulm supplemented with protein source from A. albida was suggested as fattening ration for sheep.