The Complementarity of Feed Resources for Animal Production in Africa: Proceedings of the Joint Feed Resources Networks Workshop Held in Gaborone, Botswana, 4-8 March 1991

John E. S. Stares, A. N. Said, Jackson A. Kategile

ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD), Jan 1, 1992 - Animal feeding - 418 pages

Contents

• Opening address: 3
• Keynote address: 11
• Theoretical: 17
• Effect of supplementing Chloris gayana hay with three protein sources: 25
• Seasonal changes in livestock diets in a semiarid environment: 37
• Performance of associations of Brachiaria ruziziensis with Desmodium: 47
• Stylosanthes protein fodder banks for ruminant production in Malawi: 53
• Performance of sheep and goats with offspring on semiarid saltbush: 63
• Responses to a Pennisetum purpureum Napier grass basal diet: 75
• Performance and management of sheep on Rhodes grassstylo pasture: 85
• Effects of environment botanical composition and nutrition on goat: 95
• Effet de la complémentation de Panicum maximum avec des fourrages: 111
• Performance of West African shorthorn cattle grazing under sheanut: 127
• Intensive fodder gardens for increasing forage availability: 129
• Intercrop Stylosanthes effects on millet yields and animal performance: 137
• Effects of feeding hydrated teff straw and protein sources on teff straw: 147
• The use of Leucaena leucocephala supplementation to improve: 163
• Browse species and supplements used for feeding small ruminants: 173
• Body weight response of West African Dwarf goats fed Gliricidia: 181
• The feeding value of crop residues from sorghum pearl and finger: 189
• Nonconventional feed sources as supplements to beef heifers fed: 195
• Veld hay as feed for Matebele goats during the last trimester: 205
• Fitting forage legumes into the cropping systems of semiarid Tanzania: 215
• Effect of grazing hours and concentrate supplementation on milk yield: 223
• Availability: 233
• Effect of legume crop residues and concentrate supplementation: 239
• The potential of Russian comfrey Symphytum officinale as an animal: 249
• Complémentation de l alimentatión des ruminants domestiques avec: 257
• Cagedlayer waste as a nitrogen source in cropresidue utilisation: 265
• Effects of urea treatment of maize stover and supplementation with: 279
• Effects of undegradable protein supplements on the performance: 287
• Effects of supplementing a low quality forage with concentrates: 299
• Prospects for integrating food and feed production in Welayita Sodo: 309
• A nutritional and economic evaluation of animal feed selfsufficiency: 319
• Economic implications of forage innovations on smallholder farms: 339
• Effet de la complémentation alimentaire sur la production laitière et: 351
• Smallruminant feeding systems for smallscale farmers in humid West: 363
• Socioeconomic and policy aspects of using crop residues: 377
• Comparing costs associated with the utilisation of crop residues: 385
• List of participants: 411

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Complementarity of Feed Resources for Animal Production in Africa: Proceedings of the Joint Feed Resources Networks Workshop Held in Gaborone, Botswana, 4-8 March 1991
• Editors: John E. S. Stares, A. N. Said, Jackson A. Kategile
• Contributor: African Feed Research Network
• Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD), 1992
• ISBN: 9290531991, 9789290531999
• Length: 418 pages