Utilization of Gliricidia sepium and cassava peels by West African Dwarf goats in Nigeria
| dc.creator | Ifut, O.J. | |
| dc.date | 1989 | |
| dc.date | 2016-02-08T09:03:03Z | |
| dc.date | 2016-02-08T09:03:03Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T19:10:55Z | |
| dc.description | Three diets - 100% Gliricidia septum (T-1), 100% cassava peels (T-2) and 70% Gliricidia septum plus 30% cassava peels (T-3) were fed to 12 intact bucks of the West African Dwarf (WAD) breed in a completely randomised experiment. Four bucks were randomly assigned to each diet treatment. The experiment lasted 90 days.Treatment effect on dry-matter intake (DMI) was significant (P<0.05). Goats on T-3 consumed the highest dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), nitrogen (N), acid-detergent fibre (ADF) and neutral-detergent fibre (NDF), digestible DM (DDM), digestible OM (DOM), digestible ADF (DADF) and digestible NDF (DNDF) while those on T-2 consumed the least. Goats on T-1 had the highest digestible N intake (DNI).Goats on T-3 digested DM, N, ADF and NDF most (P<0.05); those on T-2 digested OM most; they also had negative N digestibility and digested ADF and NDF least (P<0.05). Goats on T-1 digested DM and OM least (P<0.05).The highest (P<0.05) body weight gain was by goats on T3 while those on T-2 were losing weight daily.Gliricidia septum was the most and cassava peels the least (P<0.05) efficiently utilized as sole diets by goats.Estimated meat yield per treatment was highest for animals on T-3.The intake, digestibility and utilization for weight gain of Gliricidia septum by goats were increased by supplementation with cassava peels. | |
| dc.identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/70807 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/173283 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.rights | Limited Access | |
| dc.subject | goat | |
| dc.subject | animal feeding | |
| dc.subject | chemical composition | |
| dc.subject | body weight | |
| dc.subject | gliricidia sepium | |
| dc.subject | manihot esculenta | |
| dc.title | Utilization of Gliricidia sepium and cassava peels by West African Dwarf goats in Nigeria | |
| dc.type | Conference Paper |