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| dc.contributor.author | Zelalem Abebe | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-22T11:54:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-07-22T11:54:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-07-22 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/12231 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The experiment was carried out from October, 2010_ February, 2011 at Bure Agricultural, Technical, Vocational Educational and Training College (BATVETC), West Gojjam, Ethiopia. The objectives of the study were to determine intake, digestibility and body weight change of Washera lambs. Twenty growing male Washera lambs with initial body weight of 17.12 ±1.34 kg (mean ± SD) and approximately seven to nine month old were used. The weight of animals ranges IS - 21 kg. The experimental design used for all parameters was randomized complete block design. The experimental sheep were blocked based on their initial body weight into five blocks of four animals and randomly assigned to one of the four treatment diets within a block. The treatments were hay alone (T1), hay 67% + sugar cane tops 33% (T2), hay 33% + sugar cane tops 67 % (T3) and sugar cane tops alone (T4). The experimental diets were given ad libitum at about 25% refusal. Equal amount of noug seed cake (NSC), (155.6 g on dry matter basis) was given for all sheep. Clean water and common salt were available during the experiment. The experiment consisted of 90 days of feeding trial and seven days of digestibility trial. The total dry matter (DM) intake were not significantly (P>0.05) different among treatments. Similarly, DM intake per metabolic body weight and percent body weight were not significantly different (P>0.05) among treatments. The organic matter (OM) intake among treatments were non significant (P>0.05). The crude protein (CP) intake in T1 and T2 were comparable, however, T4 had the lowest (P<0.05) CP intake. Lambs assigned in T1 had significantly (P>0.05) higher neutral detergent fibre (NDF), acid detergent fibre (ADF) and acid detergent lignin (ADL) intakes than the other groups. The apparent digestibility coefficient of DM, OM, CP and ADF were not significantly different (P>0.05) among treatments. T1 had the highest (P<0.05) NDF apparent digestibility as compared to the other three treatments. Lambs on T1 and T2 gained comparable and significantly higher (P<0.05) final body weight and average daily body weight gain than T3 and T4. However, no significant differences (P>0.05) were observed among treatments in feed conversion efficiency (FCE). Therefore, it was concluded that sugar cane tops could be used as the basal feed source for growing lambs. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | ANIMAL PRODUCTION | en_US |
| dc.title | Effect of Feeding Washera Lamb With· Graded Levels of Sugar Cane Tops on Feed Intake, Digestibility and Body Weight Change at Bure Woreda of the Amhara National Regional State | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
