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Feed intake and utilization in sheep fed graded levels of dried moringa (Moringa stenopetala) leaf as a supplement to Rhodes grass hay Feleke Gebregiorgis, Tegene Negesse & Ajebu Nurfeta

Tropical Animal Health and Production ISSN 0049-4747 Trop Anim Health Prod DOI 10.1007/ s11250-011-9927-9

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Author's personal copy Trop Anim Health Prod DOI 10.1007/s11250-011-9927-9

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Feed intake and utilization in sheep fed graded levels of dried moringa (Moringa stenopetala) leaf as a supplement to Rhodes grass hay Feleke Gebregiorgis & Tegene Negesse & Ajebu Nurfeta

Accepted: 11 July 2011 # Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011

Abstract The effects of feeding graded levels of dried moringa (Moringa stenopetala) leaf on intake, body weight gain (BWG), digestibility and nitrogen utilization were studied using male sheep (BW of 13.8±0.12 kg). Six sheep were randomly allocated to each of the four treatment diets: Rhodes grass (Chloris gayana) hay offered ad libitum (T1), hay+150 g moringa leaf (T2), hay+300 g moringa leaf (T3), hay+450 g moringa leaf (T4) were offered daily. A 7-day digestibility trial and an 84-day growth experiments were conducted. Dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM) and crude protein (CP) intakes increased (P

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