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Evaluation of the feed quality of six dual purpose pearl millet varieties and growth performance of sheep fed their residues in Niger

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Title Evaluation of the feed quality of six dual purpose pearl millet varieties and growth performance of sheep fed their residues in Niger
 
Creator Umutoni, C
Bado, B V
Whitbread, A M
Ayantunde, A
Abdoussalam, I
Korombe, H S
 
Subject Pearl Millet
Livestock
 
Description Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) is a
staple food popularly cultivated by
small farmers in Niger. The stover are
also used as feeds for livestock (small
ruminant) as basal diet, especially
during the cold dry season.
ICRISAT has developed many dualpurpose
millet varieties that aim to
increase feeds for livestock while
providing grain as food to farmers. But
the nutritional quality of Stover of
these varieties for livestock are not
known.
This research aims to assess the
quality of residues of the dual-purpose
varieties and their effect on feed
intake and live weight changes of
young sheep.
 
Date 2019-09
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11418/1/ftfTropentagSep19.pdf
Umutoni, C and Bado, B V and Whitbread, A M and Ayantunde, A and Abdoussalam, I and Korombe, H S (2019) Evaluation of the feed quality of six dual purpose pearl millet varieties and growth performance of sheep fed their residues in Niger. In: Tropentag 2019: Filling gaps and removing traps for sustainable resources management, 18-20 September 2019, University of Kassel, Germany.