1. AN INVESTIGATION ON THE BREEDING SEASON OF VILLAGE WEAVER
» CHAPTER 1 5 DELIVERY WITHIN 5 WORKING DAYS…Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Soil erosion is a problem that needs to be controlled in order to forestall its danger in any locally, soil is fundamental to all land use and care has to be taken to ensure that it is not misused or destroyed. Most of this soil erosion …Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Poultry farming involves, domesticating birds such as chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese. They are raised primarily for meat production. Chickens raised for eggs are referred to as laying hens while chicken raised for meat are referred to as …Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Eggs (like other agricultural products) are perishable and consequently require proper and effective storage to reduce post harvest losses. Eggs are delicacies relished in both rural and urban areas with chicken eggs being the most popularly produced and …Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND INFORMATION Transboundary animal diseases may be defined as those epidemic diseases which are highly contagious or transmissible and have the potential for very rapi…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE Great emphasis continue to be placed on research into the use of alternative feedstuff for energy sources for livestock production in Nigeria as one of the major problem of ruminant animal production is forage scarcity especially in the dry season. During the rainy season, forages are …Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE 1.0. INTRODUCTION: Plants have been an important source of medicine for thousands of years. Even today, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that up to 80% of people still rely primarily on traditional remedies such as herbs for their medicines. The medicinal va…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT Twenty four weaner pigs were used in a study to evaluate the response of weaner and grower pigs to diets containing graded levels of toasted soybean hull (SBH).In experiment 1(growing phase), twenty four male hybrid (large white x landrace) weaner pigs, about 6 weeks old, weighing 5.92 6.85…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND TO THE INFORMATION Monkeypox is an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus. CDC. (2015) Symptoms begin with fever, headache, muscle pains, swollen lymph nodes, and feeling tired.[1] This is then followed by a rash that forms blisters and crusts over.[1] T…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT A study was conducted to assess the effect of breed, sex and age on growth, haematological, serum biochemical and carcass characteristics of Turkey. The data was generated from 100 Turkeys which comprised 50 Norfolk breed and 50 Mammoth breed. The growth traits included biweekly body weigh…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT A feeding trial lasting 90 days was conducted using 28 Yankasa weaner rams with an average weight of 14.96 ± 1.10 kg (5 6 months old) to investigate effect of sequence and feeding interval of concentrate supplement (CS) and roughage on performance. The animals were randomly assigned…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT Two experiments were conducted. The first evaluated beef smoked using different plant materials (Acacia raddiana, Eucalyptus camaldutensis, Azadirachta indica and Cocos nucifera) as source of smoke. The effect of the plant materials on the organoleptic, microbial and physicochemical pr…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of weaner rabbits fed maize husk based diets with or without enzyme supplementation. In the first experiment, thirty six weaner rabbits were used for the study. Maize husk replaced rice offal at 0, 4, 8, 12, 16 and 20% inclusion …Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT A study was conducted to assess the effect of breed, sex and age on growth, haematological, serum biochemical and carcass characteristics of Turkey. The data was generated from 100 Turkeys which comprised 50 Norfolk breed and 50 Mammoth breed. The growth traits included biweekly body …Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT A study was conducted using 231 chicks (101 Normal feather, 56 frizzle and 74 Naked neck) to evaluate growth traits and semen quality characteristics using biochemical and IGF 1 as molecular marker on three genotypes (normal, frizzle and naked neck) of Nigeria indigenous chickens. Eac…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT Four experiments were carried out to evaluate the effect of Garlic supplementation in broiler chickens. In the first experiments 0 4 weeks, a total of 270 day old broiler chicks were used for the experiment which had six treatments and three replicates, each replicate was allotted 15 birds …Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTIONFeeds and feeding is an integral part of pig production that claim between 60 75% cost of production and at the same time dictates the production strength and quality based on the observed feeding regime and feeding quality. Quality and quantity of feed ingredients utilized in…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACTThis study was carried out to determine the effect of litter size on the body weight of rabbit at uniben Teaching and Research farm. Data on the reproductive performance were obtained from Does over a period of six months (April to September, 2012) the Does were mated to vigorous bucks. Dat…Continue Reading »
» Studies were carried out to examine the output, proximate composition, carbon to nitrogen ratio and energy value of poultry litter. Excreta was collected from broiler chicken and caged layers. Excreta collected was subjected to gross chemical analysis and gross energy determination. The results show…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACTSaponins are natural detergents found in a variety of plants. Two major commercial sources of saponins are desert plants, such as Yucca schidigera from Mexico and Quillada saponaria from Chile. Yucca saponins have a steroid nucleus, where as Quillada saponins are triterpenoid in structure. S…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACTAn all year round pasture is not always guaranteed in the tropics especially in Nigeria as half of the period is a dry season. In order to circumvent the pasture scarcity during drought, silage making is paramount. In this vein, nutritive value of silage made from Guinea grass (GG) frequentl…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACTThe growth response and feed utilization of Clarias gariepinus fingerlings fed diet containing different levels of dietary lysine was investigated to determine the effects of the diets on their growth rate and also determine if there are any differences in the utilization of these diets by t…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACTThis study was conducted to evaluate the microbial status of fresh and processed cane rat along the unit operation in some selected markets in Benin City, Nigeria. Fresh cane rats were obtained from the different markets which are from the three local government areas that is, Oredo, Egor an…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACTA study was conducted to determine the apparent metabolizable energy (AME) value of dried leaves of cassava (Manihot esculenta), siam weed (Vernoma amygdalina)and bitterleaf (Chromolaena odorata). In determining the ME values, the substitution method was adopted and the basal diet which was …Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACTThe study was conducted to know the effect of leaf extracts bitter leaf, Awolowo leaf scent leaf and bridelia leaf on the performance and some blood parameters of broilers finisher chicken. A total of one hundred and thirty unsexed Marshall` broilers chicken finisher were used during the cou…Continue Reading »