Growth and Feed Utilization Performance of Sheep with Improved Feeding

Improved feeding is highly essential to exploit the growth and feed utilization performance of livestock. However, nowadays poor nutrition and feed shortages are the root causes for the poor performance of livestock sector mainly in the tropical areas, where mixed crop-livestock production is practiced. This book, therefore, provides a simple technique of utilizing the available crop residues like finger millet straw for rising of sheep by treating with urea, and with a minimum supplementation of non-conventional concentrates. This is mainly useful to those who are interested to grow and fatten sheep within a limited available land in and around the towns, so as to generate extra income and/or produce nutritious animal products to their family.