Tagasaste (Chamaecytisus palmensis) leaf supplementation to enhance nutrient intake and production performance of sheep in the Ethiopian highlands

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationHawassa Universityen
cg.contributor.crpLivestocken
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.coverage.countryEthiopiaen
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ETen
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen
cg.creator.identifierAlan Duncan: 0000-0002-3954-3067en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-017-1342-4en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1573-7438en
cg.issue7en
cg.journalTropical Animal Health and Productionen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL FEEDINGen
cg.subject.ilriFEEDSen
cg.subject.ilriSHEEPen
cg.subject.ilriSMALL RUMINANTSen
cg.volume49en
dc.contributor.authorMengesha, M.en
dc.contributor.authorBezabih, Melkamuen
dc.contributor.authorMekonnen, Kinduen
dc.contributor.authorAdie, Aberraen
dc.contributor.authorDuncan, Alan J.en
dc.contributor.authorThorne, Peter J.en
dc.contributor.authorTolera, Adugnaen
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-02T09:33:51Zen
dc.date.available2017-08-02T09:33:51Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/82984
dc.titleTagasaste (Chamaecytisus palmensis) leaf supplementation to enhance nutrient intake and production performance of sheep in the Ethiopian highlandsen
dcterms.abstractThe objective of this study was to determine the effect of supplementing increasing levels of dried tagasaste (Chamaecytisus palmensis) leaf on the nutrition and performance of sheep fed a basal diet of barley straw. The study had four treatments, which involved supplementation of dried tagasaste leaf at 100, 200, 300, and 400 g/day. Twenty-four yearling Menz sheep (weight 17 ± 0.83 kg) were assigned to one of the four treatments in a randomized complete block design. The experiment comprised a feeding trial lasting for 90 days, a digestibility trial, and carcass evaluation using all animals. Samples of the feed consumed, refused, and feces were analyzed for nutrients. Intake and digestibility of dry matter (DM) and nutrients increased linearly (P < 0.001) as tagasaste supplementation increased from 100 to 400 g/day. Similarly, average daily body weight gain increased linearly (P < 0.001) from 20 to 73 g/day, feed conversion efficiency from 0.04 to 0.10, and dressing percentage from 40 to 48%, as the supplementation increased from 100 to 400 g/day. Proportion of tagasaste leaf in the diet increased from 20 to 50%, while the ratio of neutral detergent fiber (NDF) to crude protein (CP) decreased from 7.9 to 5.3, as the level of supplementation increased. It was thus concluded that supplementation of dried tagasaste leaf up to 50% of the diet DM, resulting in a NDF:CP ratio of 5.3, produces no deleterious effects on the performance of sheep, and inclusion to this level can be applied for superior growth performance and carcass yield in sheep fed crop residue-based diets.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Accessen
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2017-07-05en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMengesha, M., Bezabih, M., Mekonnen, K., Adie, A., Duncan, A.J., Thorne, P. and Tolera, A. 2017. Tagasaste (Chamaecytisus palmensis) leaf supplementation to enhance nutrient intake and production performance of sheep in the Ethiopian highlands. Tropical Animal Health and Production 49(7):1415–1422.en
dcterms.extentp. 1415-1422en
dcterms.issued2017-10en
dcterms.languageenen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserveden
dcterms.publisherSpringeren
dcterms.relationhttps://www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/tagasaste-melkamuen
dcterms.subjectsheepen
dcterms.subjectanimal feedingen
dcterms.subjectsmall ruminantsen
dcterms.subjectcytisus proliferusen
dcterms.subjectfeed intakeen
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen

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