Improving animal productivity by supplementary feeding of multinutrient blocks, controlling internal parasites and enhancing utilization of alternate feed resources
Subtitle: a publication prepared under the framework of an RCA project with technical support of the Joint FAO/IAEA Programme of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture.
Contributors: International Atomic Energy Agency.; Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture.
Series: IAEA-TECDOC -- 1495.; IAEA-TECDOC -- 1495.
Publisher: International Atomic Energy Agency
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Vienna
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9789201045065
Subjects: Animal nutrition -- Developing countries.; Animal feeding -- Developing countries.; Feeds -- Developing countries.
Description: A major constraint to livestock production in developing countries is the scarcity and fluctuating quantity and quality of the year-round feed supply. Livestock are fed mainly on low quality agro-industrial by-products. The addition of foliage from tree leaves or supplementation with seed meals or even urea in the form of urea molasses multinutrient blocks can improve the utilization of low quality roughages mainly through the supply of nitrogen to rumen microbes. This publication presents results from the nutritional component of a project devoted to improving animal productivity and reproductive efficiency. This publication is an excellent reference source for researchers, students and extension workers and will help improve the utilization of feed resources and enhance animal productivity to meet the challenges imposed by the 'livestock revolution' taking place in developing countries.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "December 2006"

Includes bibliographical reference.

Available both in print and online.
Table of contents: title: pt.1. Multi-nutrient and medicated blocks for ruminants; title: pt.2. Efficient utilization of alternate feed resources.