Plants and plant extracts for improving animal productivity

Plant Extracts: A Potential Tool for Controlling Animal Parasitic Nematodes

Many plants play a crucial role in maintaining animal and human life in a natural balance with a tendency to establish an environmental armory among the different biosphere inhabitants. During evolution of living organisms in the biosphere biological interactions with other organisms are established and they affect each other in many ways. Different types of relationships are involved among org...

Improving animal health and livestock productivity to reduce poverty.

This study is based on scientific publications, statistics and field observations. It shows the importance of livestock in the economy and in the risk management strategies implemented by poor farming households. A comparison of livestock performance trends with the evolution of rural poverty in developing countries indicates that growth in livestock production alone is not enough to reduce rur...

Improving Alstroemeria Vase Life by Plant Extracts and 8-Hydroxyquinoline Sulfate

The effects of savory, caraway, and rose extracts and 8-HQS were studied on the vase life of Alstroemeria cut flowers. The plant extracts at three levels (10, 20, and 40 %), 8-HQS at three levels (100, 200, and 300 mg l-1), and control (distilled water) with 3 % sucrose were continuously applied on the basis of a Completely Randomized Design with three replications. It was f...

Grazing methods and stocking rates for direct-seeded alfalfa pastures: I. Plant productivity and animal performance.

A 4-yr study was conducted to determine the effects of two grazing methods (GM) at two stocking rates (SR) on alfalfa pasture plant productivity and animal performance and to ascertain the effect of grazing systems on subsequent performance of steers fed a high-concentrate diet. Eight pasture plots (.76 ha) were seeded in 1988 with alfalfa (Medicago sativa L. var. WL225) and divided into two bl...

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