Abstract
A feeding trial was carried out for 60 days with 40 growing West African Dwarf (WAD) bucks aged 5 - 7 months with an initial weight of 5.25 kg±0.35 to determine their nutrient intake. The goats were randomly allocated to five treatments, each treatment had eight replicates. Five diets were compounded CPU (100% urea treated cassava peel). CPF (60% untreated cassava peel, 40% cassava foliage), CPM (60% untreated cassava peel, 40% poultry manure), CPUF (60% untreated cassava peel, 20% cassava foliage and 20% treated cassava peel).CPFM (60% untreated cassava peel, 20% cassava foliage, 20% poultry manure). Result obtained indicated that nutrient intake significantly (P<0.05) varied among the dietary treatments. CPU had significant (P<0.05) higher dry matter intake, organic matter intake, crude fibre intake and nitrogen free extract intake than other treatments while CPF had significantly (P<0.05) better crude protein intake than other treatments. Acid detergent fibre intake was significantly (P<0.05) higher in CPM (163.g/d) while NDF had significant higher value in CPFM (198.96g/day). Hemicellulose intake was significantly (P<0.05) higher (93.02g/day) in CPM than other treatments. The study revealed that supplementing the diets of grazing West African Dwarf goats with nitrogen sources such as urea, cassava foliage, poultry manure can boost the intake of the animals which thereby leads to better productive performance of the animals.
Highlights
Livestock enterprise especially small ruminants production is one of the most resourceful and reward-able ventures in agriculture all over the world
One of the readily available and abundant agro industrial by-products has been fed to goats in various forms: with rumen epithelia wastes [2], with cassava foliage [3], with graded urea fertilizer [4] and with poultry manure [5]. [6] opined that the quality of protein available for the ruminants to utilize poor quality feed stuff is immaterial in their nutrition, what is paramount is the utilization of compound rich in N- supplies in combination with the fibrous feed materials
The crude protein content of the concentrate supplement ranged between 9.95% and 11.89% while the crude fibre content of the diets ranged from 9.68% to 10.95%
Summary
Livestock enterprise especially small ruminants production is one of the most resourceful and reward-able ventures in agriculture all over the world. Their easy handling, adaptability to various climatic conditions, modest feed require ments and efficient conversion of limited feed resources among others favour their production both in small hold and large scale. One of the readily available and abundant agro industrial by-products has been fed to goats in various forms: with rumen epithelia wastes [2], with cassava foliage [3], with graded urea fertilizer [4] and with poultry manure [5]. The objective of this study was to investigate nitrogen intake of West African Dwarf goats fed nitrogen supplemented cassava peel meal
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