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Eighteen sexually mature rabbit bucks were used to evaluate the influence of feeding nutmeg fragrans) on their sexual behaviour and semen quality. The nutmeg seeds were milled and...
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Maize being the major source of energy in poultry diets, constitutes about 60% of broiler diets, and also serves as a major staple food stuff for a good proportion of Nigerians, but its...
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An experiment was conducted to determine the proximate composition ensued grasses and legume mixture for ruminant in the humid tropical environment. Samples of grasses and legume namely...
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In a study to evaluate the performance of turkey poults as influenced by oil type and level of supplementation, 6 diets within the range of 28% crude protein and 2800 kcal ME/kg of energy...
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A study on the influence of forage legume on the reproductive characteristics of the male rabbit was carried out on twelve mixed bred rabbits aged 8 to 12 months, placed on diets...
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A total of six lactating does of the West Africa Dwarf breed (\VAD) were reared in the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture farm (A) and in tile village around the University campus...
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This study was conducted to determine the replacement effect of blood meal with local fishmeal in broiler diets. Ninety six day old broiler chicks were used in this study. Four treatment...
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The health of the public has been a matter of concern and this necessitated the carrying out of a study on the public health implications of slaughter house at Umuahia Central abattoir in...
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The effect of varying energy and protein concentration on performance of local turkey poults in the humid tropics was investigated in a 3 x 3 factorials designed experiment...
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Two (2) experiments were carried out to evaluate the performance and economic efficiency of substituting maize with either Hausa potato (Solenostemon rotundifolius) or Rizga...
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Studies were carried out on the effect of genotype and frequency of collection on semen characteristics of chickens. Semen samples were collected from ten adult Nigerian local...
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A factorial experiment of 2 x 3 in a Completely...
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Three West African Dwarf bucks aveaged 6 months of age and 6kg body weight were used in a 3 x 3 Latin square experiment to evaluate the intake and digestibility of three forage diets. The...
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Four West African dwarfs (WAD) rams average 11.55kg in weight and aged between 12-15 months were used to determine the nutrient and digestibility of processed pigeon pea- cassava peels...
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This study examined the influence of different mating methods, namely stud mating. pen mating and artificial insemination on early growth trails of' our local chicks. thirty (30)...
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The objective of this study was to predict body weight of turkeys using linear body measurement and to determine the growth rates of the male and female local turkeys using...
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The production records of WAD sheep raised intensively at MOUAU livestock farm were evaluated within a nine-year period (1998-2006). Parameters of interest were prolificacy, pre and post...
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Adding organic acid to weaned pigs diets is known to be helpful in overcoming problem occurring in the post weaning period (Tsiloyiannis et aL, 2001). In particular, chioroacetic acid has...
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The study investigated the performance of weaned rabbits fed diets treated with some organic acids. A total of twenty-four weaned rabbits were fed four experimental (TI= controL...
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Poultry dropping upgraded with maggot at different periods were evaluated for microbial quality. Poultry droppings were divided into five portions; each portion was exposed to house fly so...
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Small ruminants, provide about 30% of meat consumed in Nigeria (Sackey, 1998), yet the protein intake per day per person is still low, 19gm/head/day (FAO, 1997; Sackey et al., 2004)....
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The purpose of this study was to compare the academic performance of Private and Public secondary schools students in Agricultural Science in WAEC and NECO examinations from...
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An eight week experiment was conducted to determine the effect of genotype on growth performance of broilers in the humid tropical environment. A total of 90 day old broiler birds...
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Haematblogical, Biochemical values and growth performance of Post weaned West African Dwarf goats fed Car/ca papaya (common paw-paw) leaf meal at different levels were determined....