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Feeding sorghum stover to Ethiopian, yearling cattle: effects of amount of stover offered and cottonseed cake supplement on intake and growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

E L K Osafo ,
E Owen ,
A N Said ,
M Gill ,
A B McAllan  and
J Sherrington
E L K Osafo
Affiliation:
International Livestock Centre for Africa, PO Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
E Owen
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 2AT
A N Said
Affiliation:
International Livestock Centre for Africa, PO Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
M Gill
Affiliation:
Natural Resources Institute, Chatham Maritime, Chatham ME4 4TB
A B McAllan
Affiliation:
Institute for Grassland and Environmental Research, Hurley, Maidenhead SL6 5LR
J Sherrington
Affiliation:
International Livestock Centre for Africa, PO Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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The experiment forms part of a study to investigate methods of improving the use of sorghum stover as a feed for ruminants in Ethiopia. A previous experiment (Osafo, Owen, Said, Gill and McAllan, 1991) showed that intake and growth of cattle were improved when the amount of sorghum stover offered was increased from 25 to 50 g dry matter [DM] per kg weight [M] daily [d], and when the stover was offered unchopped rather than chopped. The present experiment investigated the intake and growth responses of yearling cattle to increasing the amount of stover offered, and to supplementing with cottonseed cake.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1992 , March 1992 , pp. 197
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1992

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Osafo, E L K, Owen, E, Said, A N, Gill, M and McAllan, A B 1992. Feeding sorghum stover to Ethiopian sheep and cattle: effect of chopping and amount offered on intake and selection. Proceedings of BSAP Meeting ‘Animal Production in Developing Countries’, Wye College, 2-4 Sept. 1991 (in preparation).CrossRefGoogle Scholar