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Supplementing Kacang goats with urea mineral mollases blocks (UMMB) during the dry season in West Timor

  • F U Datta
  • , S A Adjam
  • , A S E Nenoliu
  • , John Vivian Nolan
  • , J B Rowe

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    Abstract

    Bali cattle and goats are important income sources for smallholder farmers in West Timor. Supplementary feeding however, has not been widely adopted, probably because of the costs of supplements. To increase the rate of adoption of this technology and to test two types of urea mineral molasses blocks (UMMB1 from Java and UMMB2 from Timor), an on-farm research study was conducted from September to December 2004 using 180 goats (of varying ages and sex) and involving 22 goat owners in two districts in the South-Centre-Timor Regency. Control animals were owned by people within the same village whose goats had access to identical feed resources outside the night shelter/fences as the supplemented goats. Animals were allotted into a completely randomized design with 3 treatments (Control, UMMB1, and UMMB2) and 4 replications for each age group. Data were analysed using analysis of variance.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationRecent Advances in Animal Nutrition in Australia
    EditorsP B Cronje, N Richards
    Place of PublicationArmidale, Australia
    PublisherUniversity of New England
    Pages26A-26A
    Volume15
    ISBN (Print)186389926X
    Publication statusPublished - 2005
    EventRAAN 2005: Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition in Australia - University of New England, Armidale, Australia
    Duration: 10 Jul 200513 Jul 2005

    Conference

    ConferenceRAAN 2005: Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition in Australia
    CityArmidale, Australia
    Period10/07/0513/07/05

    UN SDGs

    This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    1. SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
      SDG 2 Zero Hunger

    Keywords

    • Animal Nutrition

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