Digestible Energy Requirements of Mexican Donkeys Fed Oat Straw and Maize Stover

Carretero-Roque, L; Colunga, G B; Smith, Dave; Gonz?lez-Ronquillo, M; Sol, A; Castel?n-Ortega, O A

Abstract

The limited availability of food, together with the constraints that traditional management systems impose on the natural foraging behaviour of donkeys, often results in severe under-nutrition. Few studies have been conducted into the digestibility of different forages and little information exists on nutritional requirements of donkeys. In order to measure digestible energy requirements of donkeys under tropical conditions, an experiment was carried out at the Centre for Research in Agricultural Science (CICA) and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Universidad Aut

Citation

Carretero-Roque, L., Colunga, G. B., Smith, D., Gonzǭlez-Ronquillo, M., Sol, A., & Castelǭn-Ortega, O. A. (2005). Digestible Energy Requirements of Mexican Donkeys Fed Oat Straw and Maize Stover. Tropical Animal Health and Production, 37(S1), 123-142. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-005-9012-3

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2005-01
• Deposit Date: May 15, 2015
• Print ISSN: 0049-4747
• Electronic ISSN: 1573-7438
• Publisher: BMC
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 37
• Issue: S1
• Pages: 123-142
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-005-9012-3
• Keywords: alfalfa; alfalfa hay; America; angiosperms; animal nutrition;; Animal Nutrition (Physiology) (LL510); animals; APEC ; countries; ; asses; autumn; Avena; Avena sativa; behaviour; body condition; body weight; BODY-CONDITION; Chordata; Cyperales; Developing Countries; dicotyledons; diet; dietary standards; digestibility; digestible energy; donkey; donkeys; Draught Animals (LL060); energy; energy cost of maintenance; energy requirements; Equidae; Equus; eukaryotes; Fabaceae; Fabales; fall; FEEDING; Female; food requirements; forage; FORAGES; foraging; hay; horse feeding; Latin America; live weight; liveweight; lucerne; lucerne hay; maize; maize stover; mammals; management; Medicago; Medicago sativa; Mexico; monocotyledons; North America; nutrient requirements; nutritional requirements; oat straw; oats; OECD Countries; Papilionoideae; Perissodactyla; plants; Poaceae; research; seasonal changes; seasonal fluctuations; seasonal variation; Seasons; Spermatophyta; spring; straw; summer; Threshold Countries; undernutrition; vertebrates; Veterinary medicine; weight; winter; working animals
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8141
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11250-005-9012-3