Abstract: A study was conducted to assess forage mass, botanical composition, nutritive value of herbaceous vegetation, grazing behavior, forage selectivity and performance of co-grazing sheep, goats, cattle and camels with initial body weights (BW) of 20.6±2.09, 16.6±0.97, 96.8±3.43 and 162.3±21.28 kg, respectively. Grazing lasted 16 weeks, using 6 growing animals from each animal species (AS). Animals co-grazed 6 ha of grazing area (G) with diverse plant species. Four enclosures (E) ea...
Abstract: The study was based on two experiments;Experiment Iused white leghorn layers (Paper I and Paper II) whereasExperiment IIused cobb500 broilers (Paper III and Paper IV). Experiment-I was conducted to study effect of replacing soybean meal (SBM)with graded levels of linseed meal (LSM) on feed intake, egg production and quality, fertility, hatchability and chick quality(Paper I) and egg chemical compositions, fatty acids profiles and eating quality (Paper II). Experiment-II studied fee...
Abstract: The general objectives of the study were to provide information necessary for the development of appropriate management strategies to ensure improved quality of drinking water for livestock and to determine the extent to which consuming saline water affects performance and health of sheep and goats. Specific objectives were to analyze the quality of water from rift valley lakes of Ethiopia for livestock drinking and to determine the effects of salinity of drinking water on performa...