Abstract/Overview Lactation curves are a graphical representation of the milk production profile of a doe from par- turition to drying up. Their shape provides information about the productivity of the doe and of- fers a means of explaining features of the milk production patterns of each animal. A total of 2732 daily morning milk records from 610 does of the Kenyan Alpine dairy goats’ genetic groups (50% Alpine, 75% Alpine, 87.5% Alpine and > 87.5% Alpine) and local goats (0% Alpine) k...
Abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate effect of transportation on welfare of indigenous chicken. A sample of 8 hens were randomly selected from the target population. Each treatment had an equal number of mature indigenous chicken hens weighing between 1.25 and 2.4 kg. The first batch of 4 birds were tied together and loaded on to an open vehicle roof top. The second batch of 4 birds was loaded into traditional transport cages and the cage loaded on top of the transport vehicle....
Abstract: Dairy production is a biologically efficient system that converts large quantities of roughage in the tropics to milk. Milk production levels are determined by the levels of technologies applied to the dairy enterprise. However, information on levels of adoption of dairy technologies especially in the arid and semi-arid areas (ASALs) of Kenya is scanty. This study thus sought to evaluate the extent of adoption of modern dairy technologies and its impact on milk production in Nzaui ...
Abstract: The study was conducted at Yabello, Arero and Dire districts of Borana zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia, aimed to assess production practices, physicochemical properties and microbial quality of ititu produced in the study area. The study contains both survey on production and handling practices of traditional made ititu and laboratory experiment for physicochemical and microbial quality of traditionally and laboratory made ititu. A total of 180 households selected purposively...
Abstract: This dissertation is composed of three separate experiments. The first and second studies evaluated the performance of broilers and white leghorn layers fed different levels of enset corm replacing maize grain. The third experiment assessed the performance of white leghorn layers fed kocho diets replacing maize. In the studies with enset corm treatments were ration consisting 0 (T1), 15 (T2), 30 (T), and 45% (T4) of enset corm as a replacement for maize by weight. In the experiment...
Abstract: A study conducted at Haramaya University dairy farm aimed to evaluate the levels of macro and micro minerals in the feed, serum, and milk of lactating dairy cows. The 6 feed samples were collected from dairy farms and 22 milk and blood samples from cows selected based on parity (three to four) and stages of lactation (4 post-partum, 6 early, 6 mid, and 6 late). The analysis included measuring Calcium (Ca), Phosphorus (P), Potassium (K), Sodium (N), Magnesium (Mg), Zinc (Zn), and Ir...
Abstract: The study was conducted in Meta Distirict of Eastern Hararge Zone Oromia Regional State, with the aimed to assess general milk production and marketing, to determine chemical composition and microbial quality of raw cow's milk. Three kebeles namely; Biftu Ganama, Oda Chafe and Waligalte Bali'na were purposively selected based on their dairy potential. A total of 132 respondents were randomly selected from farmers (122),from consumers (6) and from collection centers (4). Interviewed...
Abstract: The study was conducted in Arsi Negelle and Adami Tulu Jido Kombolcha (ATJK) districts from July to the end of September 2017, with the objectives to determine the effect of applying different sources of fertilizer on species composition, herbage yield and chemical composition of natural pastures and soil fertility status of pasture land. The experiment involved five treatments, i.e., (T1) control (no fertilizer application), (T2), a combination of urea and DAP (50 + 100 kg ha-1 re...
Abstract: A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of substituting maize with different levels of sweet potato tuber meal (SWPTM) on feed intake, weight gain, and feed conversion ratio (FCR) and mortality percentage of broiler chicks. One hundred ninety two Cobb 500 broiler chick strains with initial weight of 35.64±0.37 (mean± SD) grams were randomly distributed to four treatments each with three replications in a completely randomized design. At the end of the trial, three broilers w...
Abstract: An experiment was conducted to evaluate feed intake, digestibility, body weight gain and carcass characteristics of Arsi Bale sheep fed a basal diet of wheat straw (WS) supplemented with crushed maize (CM) grain only or with graded levels of dried green Vernonia amygdalina (VA) leaves. Twenty male Arsi Bale sheep with mean initial live weight of 19.36±0.82 kg (mean ± SD) were grouped into five blocks based on initial body weight and randomly assigned to one of the four treatments...
Abstract: A study was conducted in Gode district of Somali Regional state, with the objectives of generating baseline information and the effect of season of the feed resources, to identify the quality and quantity of feed resource and identify the coping strategies adopted by pastoralists and agro-pastoralists during drought. The study was undertaken in seven purposely selected Rural Kebeles (RK’s) of the study area based on accessibilities of the road, population size and feed resource a...
Abstract: This study was conducted to asses dairy cattle feed resources and their mineral status in Kachabirra,Hadero Tunito Zuria, and Doyogena districts, Kembata Tembaro Zone, Southern Ethiopia.Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to collect primary data from dairy cattle producers. In the first stage Kachabirra, Hadero Tunito, and Doyogena districts were purposively selected based on their dairy cattle production potential. In the second stage, three kebeles were selected from each of ...
Abstract: The study was conducted at Haramaya University Poultry farm to evaluate the effect of finisher feed restriction on subsequent growth performance of broiler chicken. A total of 180 unsexed cobb 500 day old broiler chickens were randomly allocated to four dietary treatment groups such as no restriction as control treatment (T1), and 20% (T2), 40% (T3) and 60% (T4) feed restriction of the control feed consumption with Complete Randomized Design. The treatment was applied from day 22 t...
Abstract: The study was conducted to assess cattle production practices in the Kembata Tembaro Zone and to evaluate the meat quality of cattle slaughtered in four local municipal abattoirs (Durame, Damboya, Kedida, and Angecha). A total of 457 respondents were interviewed, including 401 cattle producers, 29 traders,and27 abattoir workers. Atotal of 48 meat samples were collected from four abattoirs to evaluate meat quality. The samples were taken from the longissimus-dorsi (LD) muscle (locat...
Abstract: A study was conducted to determine the effect of feeding Rhodes grass (RG; Chloris gayana), elephant grass (EG; Pennisetum purpureum), guinea grass (GG; Panicum maximum) and bermuda grass (BG; Cynodon dactylon) supplemented with a similar amount of concentrate mixture (CM; wheat bran (WB) and noug seed cake (NSC) at 67:33 ratio) on performance and economy of fattening of Black Head Ogaden sheep. The study consists of a feeding and digestibility trials of 90 and 7 days long, respect...