Performance of sheep fed soybean stover and cassava crumb based diets

cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/s0921-4488(98)00143-6en
cg.issn0921-4488en
cg.issue3en
cg.journalSmall Ruminant Researchen
cg.subject.ilriSHEEPen
cg.subject.ilriFEEDSen
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen
cg.volume31en
dc.contributor.authorDada, S.A.O.en
dc.contributor.authorAdeneye, J.A.en
dc.contributor.authorAkinsoyinu, A.O.en
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Jimmy W.en
dc.contributor.authorDashiell, Kenton E.en
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-11T09:24:14Zen
dc.date.available2013-06-11T09:24:14Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/29620
dc.titlePerformance of sheep fed soybean stover and cassava crumb based dietsen
dcterms.abstractA digestibility study was conducted with West African Dwarf (WAD) sheep offered four varieties of soybean stovers (SBS) basal diets, TGx 1019-2EN (SBS1), TGx 1448-2E (SBS2), TGx 1660-19F (SBS3) and TGx 932-2E (SBS4) and a growth study with WAD sheep offered three varieties of soybean stovers SBS1, SBS2 and SBS3 incorporated into three diets such that the roughage source in the diet was a 50:50 mixture of stover and hay supplemented with 15 percent cassava crumb to investigate feed intake, digestibility and body weight change. In Experiment 1, similar (p>0.05) mean voluntary dry matter intake (VDMI) (37.32 (+ or -) 2.19 g kg-1 BW 0.75 day -1) observed for sheep fed SBS1, SBS2 and SBS3 was higher (p<0.05) than 31.59 (+ or -) 2.19 g kg -1 BW0.75 day -1 of SBS4. Crude protein intake pattern was identical to that of N-intake and the similar (p>0.05) DM mean N-intake (0.68 (+ or -) 0.04 g kg -1 BW 0.75 day -1) of SBS1, SBS2 and SBS4 was higher (p<0.05) than 0.44 (+ or -) 0.04 g kg -1 BW 0.75 day -1) of SBS3, although 0.47 (+ or -) 0.02 g kg -1 BW 0.75 day -1 N-retained by sheep fed SBS2 was significantly (p<0.05) higher than N-retained values of other SBS. Crude protein digestibility (CPD) value (73.46 (+ or -) 3.08 percent) of sheep fed SBS2 was also higher (p<0.05) than the similar (p>0.05) mean (61.32 (+ or -) 3.08 percent) CPD value of sheep fed SBS1 and SBS3 while sheep fed SBS3 recorded the least (p<0.05) CPD value of 34.08 (+ or -) 3.08 percent. Also, neutral detergent fibre digestibility (NDFD) value (64.64 (+ or -) 5.90 percent) of sheep fed SBS2 was higher (p<0.05) than the similar (p>0.05) mean NDFD value (49.02 (+ or -) 5.90 percent) of sheep fed SBS1, SBS3 and SBS4. In Experiment 2, average VDMI of sheep fed diet I (54.58 (+ or -) 1.93 g kg -1 BW 0.75 day -1) was higher (p<0.05) than the corresponding mean VDMI (48.41 (+ or -) 1.93 g kg -1 BW 0.75 day -1) of sheep fed diets 2 and 3. Similar mean dry matter digestibility (DMD) value (68.25 (+ or -) 1.89 percent) of sheep fed diets 1 and 3 was higher (p<0.05) than DMD value (56.68 (+ or -) 1.89 percent of diet 2. N-retained as percentage of N-intake (g kg -1 BW 0.75 day -1) of sheep fed diet 1 (78.83 (+ or -) 2.58) was higher (p<0.05) than (64.49 (+ or -) 1.58) of diet 2 and (61.3 (+ or -) 2.58) of diet 3 was the lowest (p<0.05) mean value (30.50 (+ or -) 3.13) of diet 2 and 3. Also, sheep fed diet 1 recorded growth rate (g day -1) (18.68 (+ or -) 0.16) which was higher (p<0.05) than 15.38 (+ or -) 0.16 of sheep fed diet 3 and sheep fed diet 2 recorded the lowest (p<0.05) growth rate of 10.99.en
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dcterms.bibliographicCitationSmall Ruminant Research;31(3): 229-238en
dcterms.extentp. 229-238en
dcterms.issued1999-02
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.subjectsheepen
dcterms.subjectmanihot esculentaen
dcterms.subjectsoybeansen
dcterms.subjectstoveren
dcterms.subjectanimal performanceen
dcterms.subjectfeed intakeen
dcterms.subjectdigestibilityen
dcterms.subjectwest african dwarf sheepen
dcterms.subjectchemical compositionen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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