S. Omotugba, O. A. Jayeola, A. F. Aderounmu, S. Kawe, A. Meduna, O. A. Olafadehan
{"title":"Analysis of the mineral composition of Vitellaria paradoxa seed as potential feed source for livestock","authors":"S. Omotugba, O. A. Jayeola, A. F. Aderounmu, S. Kawe, A. Meduna, O. A. Olafadehan","doi":"10.4314/APRA.V3I3.36396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/APRA.V3I3.36396","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350170,"journal":{"name":"Animal Production Research Advances","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128651747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance of finishing broilers fed two commercial diets","authors":"B. O. Nweze","doi":"10.4314/APRA.V3I3.36400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/APRA.V3I3.36400","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350170,"journal":{"name":"Animal Production Research Advances","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124041443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of varying dietary protein and energy levels on performance and carcass yield of indiginous growing turkeys ( Meleagris gallopavo )","authors":"A. Anyaehie","doi":"10.4314/APRA.V3I2.36371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/APRA.V3I2.36371","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350170,"journal":{"name":"Animal Production Research Advances","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116076042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of microbial loads in the feeds and feces and their effects on performance of Anak broilers raised on deep litter","authors":"A. Nweze","doi":"10.4314/APRA.V3I3.36397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/APRA.V3I3.36397","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350170,"journal":{"name":"Animal Production Research Advances","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134184536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mabel Kamweli Aworh, O. Alaka, O. Olukunle, H. O. Olabode
{"title":"Growth changes associated with feeding Clarias gariepinus with mouldy feeds","authors":"Mabel Kamweli Aworh, O. Alaka, O. Olukunle, H. O. Olabode","doi":"10.4314/apra.v3i3.36395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/apra.v3i3.36395","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350170,"journal":{"name":"Animal Production Research Advances","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114495417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Age and growth of Mugil cephalus (Linnaeus, 1958) (Perciformes: Mugilidae) in Bonny estuary, Nigeria","authors":"I. Aleleye-Wokoma, N. Woke","doi":"10.4314/APRA.V3I3.36389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/APRA.V3I3.36389","url":null,"abstract":"The age and growth of Mugil cephalus was investigated in Bonny Estuary, Nigeria, from January, 1995 to December, 1996. Length-weight relationships were isometric with length exponents of 2.84 (males), 2.90 (females) and 2.88 (overall). Modal length at age were 12.0cm, 20.9cm, 25.0cm, 28.4cm and 30.2cm TL for ages 0+, 1+, 2+, 3+ and 4+ respectively. Corresponding total weights were 20.01g, 78.93g, 173.12g, 217.61g and 247.50g, respectively. Asymptotic length (Lo) was estimated 33.2cm TL, asymptotic weight (W sub(o)) was 484g, growth coefficient K=0.55847 super(-1) and hypothetical age at zero length To = 0.152yr. Longevity, Tmax, was 5.0yr, length and weight growth performance indices were Q super(1)=2.79 and Q = 1.44, respectively. Total mortality, natural mortality and fishing mortality were z = 1.02yr super(-1), M=0.607yr super(-1) and F=O. 3129yr super(-1), respectively. The exploitation ratio E was 0.4048 and exploitation rate U = 0.2302yr super(-1)","PeriodicalId":350170,"journal":{"name":"Animal Production Research Advances","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115338362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GROWTH PERFORMANCE TRAITS OF BROILERS EXPOSED TO CRUDE OIL FLAME EMISSIONS","authors":"P. Ede, A. O. Amakiri, A. Monsi, S. Teme","doi":"10.4314/APRA.V3I1.36369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/APRA.V3I1.36369","url":null,"abstract":"TI1is study was a simulation of what obtains in the petroleum producing areas, where gas flar ing and oil spill pollution effects are felt. The experimental design was a 2-factor factorial In a' completely randomized design (CRD), with factor A as distances from the crude petroleum flame and factor B. as the age of the birds In weeks. One hundred and eighty (1BO) Anak day-old broiler chicks were used In the study with 4 treatments of 45 birds per treatrrient, replicated thrice at 15 birds per replicate. A control was located in another poultry house outside the flame area. The crude oil was ignited in a metal burner, 22.86cm high with a diameter of 17 .Bern and a thickness of 1.17cm designed for· the purpose. Crude oil burning WilS from Garn to topm dillly throughout the experimental period. Ambient temperature and relative humidity readings were nxordcd tl11 lcc · dally (morning, afternoon and evening). The birds were fed ad llblturn on a proprietary start er mash for 5 weeks, and a broiler finisher mash from for 3 weeks. Water was provided adllbltum . . Routine inoculations ;ind other medications were administered as and when due. The rnlcrocllmatological experh; iental environment showed a generally lower llght lnten~lty, lower ·ambient temperature and high relaijve humidity. The values obtained in this study at an averaging time of 60 minutes (at 10 minutes interv 0.05) in the effe<..t of the treatments on the birds. Age of birds had highly significant (p<0.01) Influence on all the performance traits measured, Including weekly bcdy weights, average dally gains, weekly feed consumption, weekly feed converslon (feed/gain) and weekly mortality. TI1e findings suggest that further studies need to be conducted on whether there are physiological adjustments to the emissions by the birds that were not ob~.ervcd In the performance trait analysis.","PeriodicalId":350170,"journal":{"name":"Animal Production Research Advances","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130382589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trypanosomes and filarieae species in slaughtered cattle in Kaduna abattoir, Nigeria","authors":"A. Fajinmi, J. Yohanna, O. Faleke","doi":"10.4314/APRA.V3I3.36394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/APRA.V3I3.36394","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350170,"journal":{"name":"Animal Production Research Advances","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127782528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of wet and dry mash feeding of growing/finishing cockerels","authors":"H. Awojobi, A. Adekunmisi, A. Talabi","doi":"10.4314/APRA.V3I1.36361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/APRA.V3I1.36361","url":null,"abstract":"Two breeds of cockerel (Harco and Shaver) of egg-laying strains were offered conventional dry feed, wet feed with and without drinking water at the growing (9-14 weeks of age) and finishing (14-19 weeks of age) phases. The wet feed was prepared by mixing one part of dry feed with two parts of water at the time of feeding. Overall feed consumption and weight gain were significantly (p 0.05) influenced by form of feeding. Dressing percentage was significantly (p 0.05) higher daily weight gain and a significantly (p Animal Production Research Avancees Vol. 3 (1) 2007: pp. 27-33","PeriodicalId":350170,"journal":{"name":"Animal Production Research Advances","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132926568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laboratory treatment of Trypanosoma evansi - infected rats with a combination of Securidaca longepedunculata and Diminazene aceturate","authors":"I. Ameh, A. Ajagbonna, E. Etuk, F. Yusuf","doi":"10.4314/APRA.V3I1.36363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/APRA.V3I1.36363","url":null,"abstract":"Trypanocidal potency of Securidacalongepedunculata (violet tree), a common savannah shrub with broad spectrum medicinal use throughout tropical Africa was compared and combined with Diminazene aceturate (Berenil ®), a standard but toxic and costly trypanocidal drug. Subsequently, various experimental groups of laboratory maintained Wister albino rats, were infected with stocked T. evansi and thereafter given, as soon as parasitaemia was established, intra-peritoneal injections of separate or combined doses of Bereni ® and/or 40.6% yield of the dried crude root extract of oral Securidaca respectively. The result showed that sub-therapeutic doses of the combined Bereni ® (1.7 mg/kg) and Securidaca (100 mg/kg), was as good as therapeutic doses (3.5 mg/kg) of Berenil ® alone, at significantly (p Animal Production Research Avancees Vol. 3 (1) 2007: pp. 38-42","PeriodicalId":350170,"journal":{"name":"Animal Production Research Advances","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129894951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}