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This study was undertaken to investigate the laying pattern, external and internal qualities of Muscovy and Aylesbury ducks in a humid tropical environment. Results revealed that Muscovy...
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This research work was conducted to examine the pre-weaning performance of pure and crossbred goat kids in the rainforest zone of South-East, Nigeria. A total of 37 progenies ...
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A total of 75 ducklings obtained by reciprocal crossing of Muscovy drakes on Aylesbury ducks and Aylesbury drakes on Muscovy ducks were used to evaluate the growth performance and carcass...
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This experiment was carried out to compare the growth performance of pure and crossbred kids of West African Dwarfs (WAD), Red Sokoto (RS) goats fattened on a 75% grass + legume...
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A fifty six (56) day feeding trial using 12 West African Dwarf (WAD) goats aged 6-8 months was conducted to ça1uate the Haematological and serum Biochemical indices of goats fed...
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The study investigated the effect of age at weaning on growth performance and postweaning survival rate of rabbit genotypes. It was carried out using the completely randomized design...
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An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of feeding maggot meal (MM) and dried poultry waste (DPW) to West African Dwarf (WAD) goats in a 21-day feeding trial. Three diets...
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Six Red Sokoto and West African Dwarf does, raised intensively in a University livestock farm, were evaluated for milk yield and milk composition in a ten - week study. The...
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This study was conducted to evaluate the body weight and morphornetric changes of trypantolerant composite bull calves in the humid tropical environment, the parameter measured...
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A study was conducted using one hundred and fifty day old broiler chicks to evaluate the performance of broilers fed raw and various processed Mucuna sloanei seed meal diet. The...
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This experiment was conducted to determine the effect of single straight diet fortified with fish meal on the growth of broilers. The basal diet was augmented with fishmeal to take the...
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This experiment was conducted to determine the effect of single phase straight diet on the growth of broilers. Four broiler diets were formulated containing 22%, 24%, 26% and 28%...
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The study was carried out to evaluate the comparative performance of Hubbard, Arbor Acres and Cobb 500 broiler genotypes based on growth performance and mortality in the humid tropics....
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Data from 363 kitten obtained over period of 9 months (June, 2002 — March, 2003) from the mating of ten bucks and forty — four breeding does consisting of thirty Dutch and...
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In this study to determine general and specific combining ability, reciprocal effect and heterosis, three breeds of rabbits namely New Zealand White (NZW), Dutch (DT) and...
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A total of 159 crossbred local chicken generated from main and reciprocal crosses of local chicken consisting of normal feathers, naked neck and frizzle chicken with an exotic layer...
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A study was conducted to determine the inter relationship and repeatability estimate of body traits of three broiler strains. A total of one hundred and fifty (150) day old chicks...
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A Total of seventy two turkey poults was procured at day old and were used in an experiment to determine the performance of turkey poults fed varying levels (0,20,30, 40%) of...
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High cost of feed is a recurring limitation to poultry production in Nigeria which has been rated at 70 - 80 percent of total cost of production (Madubuike and Ekenyem,...
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A total of one hundred and twenty (120) day old chicks were used in an eight weeks trial to evaluate the growth performance, carcass characteristics and economic benefits of ...
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This study was conducted to determine the reproductive performances of purebred rabbits in Umudike, Abia state. Newzeal and White and Chinchilla rabbit does were compared using 10...
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Eighteen weaner rabbits were used to evaluate the effect of fresh leaves of Pterocarpus santalinoides on the growth performance and serum chemistry parameters. The rabbits were ...
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A 56-day feeding trial involving sixty (60) 8 weeks old turkey poults was conducted to evaluate the organ and carcass characteristics of grower turkeys fed varying dietary levels of...
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This research work was conducted to check the impact of Aspilia africana leaves on the reproductive performance of rabbit bucks. A total of twenty seven (27) mixed rabbit breeds ...
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The study was conducted to determine the relationship between body weight, organ and linear traits of three commercial strains of broiler chicken. A total of two hundred and...