Growth and Feed Utilization Performance of Sheep with Improved Feeding

ISBN-13: 9783659646218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 80 str.

Gashu Melese;Tamir Berhan;Urge Mengistu

Opis

Improved feeding is highly essential to exploit the growth and feed utilization performance of livestock. However, nowadays poor nutrition and feed shortages are the root causes for the poor performance of livestock sector mainly in the tropical areas, where mixed crop-livestock production is practiced. This book, therefore, provides a simple technique of utilizing the available crop residues like finger millet straw for rising of sheep by treating with urea, and with a minimum supplementation of non-conventional concentrates. This is mainly useful to those who are interested to grow and fatten sheep within a limited available land in and around the towns, so as to generate extra income and/or produce nutritious animal products to their family.

O autorze

The author was born in April 1977,Ethiopia. He studied Animal production and received BSc. and MSc.degrees at Hawassa and Haramaya universities in July 2002 and October 2008, respectively. currently, he is perusing his PhD studies at Haramaya University, meat production stream, and he has published three journal articles in a reputable journal.