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...

Improving poultry productivity would improve protein nutrition (Misba and Aberra, 2013). Belewu and Fagbcmi (2007) indicated that nutrition has higher contribution in improving the productivity of chicken. Therefore, poultry producers will indeed have to search beyond cereal grains to keep pace with ever-increasing poultry production (Chauynarong et al., 2009). One of these kind of feed is cassava, since the plant has peculiar advantage of easy adaptability to extreme stress condition and year round availability (Fasuyi and Aletor, 2005). The cassava leaves and roots were separately chopped,...