The identification of feeding and management strategies for animals in farming system requires information on the availability and nutritive value of existing feed resources. There is little information on the utilization of bamboo leaves as animal feed. However during the dry period where there is no pasture, ever green bamboo grass can be an answer. This book can provide bamboo leaves feed intake, digestibility, weight gain carcass characteristics of sheep fed on tef straw. Concentrates are not only expensive but also unavailable. So bamboo leaves can substitute these concentrate mix which...

This book is about the effect of supplementing different proportion of sesbania sesban, Rice bran and their mixtures on the digestibility and performance of sheep feed native grass hay.It also describes how the feed intake, body weight gain, digestibility as well as carcass parameters of experimental sheep affected after received different proportions of experimental feeds.The partial budget analysis of experimental feeds and the nutritive values of the offered feed as well as refusals are also included. So this book can be used as a reference for those professionals in animal nutrition as...