Alternative feedstuffs and their effects on performance of Awassi sheep: a review

MS Awawdeh - Tropical animal health and production, 2011 - Springer
Fat-tailed sheep (FTS) is a group of breeds characterized by large (fatty) tails that it is
commonly distributed in Africa, Middle East, Pakistan, and to a lesser extent in other …

Assessment of nutritive value of cereal and legume straws based on chemical composition and in vitro digestibility

S López, DR Davies, FJ Giráldez… - Journal of the …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The nutritive value of 17 straws was determined on the basis of their chemical composition,
in vitro dry matter (DM) digestibility and rumen fermentation kinetics (from gas production …

In vitro methane emission from Indian dry roughages in relation to chemical composition

S Singh, BP Kushwaha, SK Nag, AK Mishra… - Current Science, 2011 - JSTOR
Dry roughages, viz. wheat straw (WS), rice straw (RS), barley straw (BS), oat straw (OS),
gram straw (GS), lentil straw (LS), sorghum stover (SST), pearl millet stover (PMST), maize …

Nutritional composition of lentil straw, vetch hay, olive leaves, and saltbush leaves and their digestibility as measured in fat-tailed sheep

S Abbeddou, S Rihawi, HD Hess, L Iniguez… - Small Ruminant …, 2011 - Elsevier
Several less researched forages from various Mediterranean plants may be superior, or at
least equivalent, in forage value to barley (Hordeum vulgare) straw. These include lentil …

Evaluation of legume and cereal fodders for carbohydrate and protein fractions, nutrient digestibility, energy and forage quality

M Kaithwas, S Singh, S Prusty… - Range Management …, 2020 - indianjournals.com
In the present study commonly used 5 legume (berseem, lucerne, desmenthus, lablab and
stylosanthes) and 8 cereal (barley green, oat green, guinea grass, wheat straw, paddy straw …

Foraging behaviour, digestion and growth performance of sheep grazing on dried vetch pasture cropped under conservation agriculture

S Abidi, S Benyoussef… - Journal of Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study aimed to investigate the replacement value of half time grazing of wheat stubbles
by vetch, which had been cropped under the context of conservation agriculture (CA). Three …

Chemical composition, in vitro digestibility and gas production of straws from different varieties and accessions of chickpea

F Kafilzadeh, E Maleki - Journal of Animal Physiology and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical composition, in vitro digestibility and gas production of straw from four different
varieties of Kabuli chickpea (Cicer arietinum) were studied. Kinetics of fermentation of straws …

Comparative grain yield, straw yield, chemical composition, carbohydrate and protein fractions, in vitro digestibility and rumen degradability of four common vetch …

Y Huang, F Zhou, Z Nan - Animals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The common vetch (Vicia sativa L.) is an important legume crop of mixed
crop-livestock systems that provides high-quality grains used as food/feed and straw used …

Could an abandoned mercury mine area be cropped?

M Rocio, E Elvira, Z Pilar, S María-José - Environmental research, 2013 - Elsevier
The Almadén area (Spain) is known for its high natural mercury background as well as for
the anthropogenic impact due to mining activities. After the end of these activities …

The design and testing of a cutter and feeder mechanism for the mechanical harvesting of lentils

MM Sidahmed, NS Jaber - Biosystems engineering, 2004 - Elsevier
Although lentil is a valuable source of protein for humans and its straw is a highly valued
animal feed, its production in West Asia and North Africa (WANA) is limited due to harvesting …