The study was conducted to ascertain the potential feedstuffs available for livestock management in three senatorial districts of Cross River State, Nigeria. A total of 192 structured questionnaires were administered to sole livestock and crop-livestock farmers in 24 villages at eight per village. At collection only 176 were retrieved from the respondents representing the farm households. Data ...

Finishing is a basic requirement for obtaining the required surface quality in production of various components used many industries. A relatively new finishing process, called magnetic abrasive finishing, complex shaped surfaces. This article presents latest developments polishing and describes results obtained by research scientists based on their experiments field polishing.

background: infectivity of herbivores with trichostrongylus nematodes is widespread in many countries, having a major economic impact on breeding, survivability, and productivity of domestic livestock. this study was carried out on trichostrongylus species isolated from domestic livestock in order to develop an easy-to-perform method for species identification. methods: trichostrongylus isolate...

Two finishing trials and a metabolism trial were conducted to evaluate level of supplemental degradable intake (crude) protein (DIP) in finishing diets on cattle performance, carcass characteristics, and ruminal metabolism. Finishing trials were conducted in two consecutive years using 128 crossbred yearling steers (BW = 343+/-5 kg, Trial 1) and 176 crossbred yearling steers (BW = 375+/-4 kg, T...

Objective. This study evaluated the effect of immediate or delayed finishing/polishing using different systems on the surface roughness, hardness, and microleakage of a silorane-based composite. Material and Methods. Specimens were made with silorane-based composite (Filtek P90, 3M ESPE) and assigned to the treatments: control (light-cured); aluminum oxide discs (Sof-Lex, 3M ESPE); diamond-impr...

Sultan I. Amer, Ph.D. AQUACHEM INC. Environmental Technology • March/April 1998 Wastewater from metal finishing industries contains high concentrations of contaminants which are hazardous to the environment and pose potential health risks to the public. With increasingly stringent regulations governing wastewater discharge and greater quantities of wastewater being produced, there is a growin...

In recent, domestic livestock farms are receiving enormous damages through various livestock diseases that are highly contagious such as foot-and-mouth disease and avian influenza (AI). Additionally, they are experiencing difficulties also financially as a result of decrease in income from production cost increase. This paper will propose a livestock disease forecasting system for diagnosing in...

An increasing proportion of the world's poor is rearing livestock today, and the global livestock population is growing. Livestock predation by large carnivores and their retaliatory killing is becoming an economic and conservation concern. A common recommendation for carnivore conservation and for reducing predation on livestock is to increase wild prey populations based on the assumption that...

Abrasive flow machining also known as abrasive flow deburring or extrude honing, is an interior surface finishing process characterized by flowing an abrasive-laden fluid through a work piece. This fluid is typically very viscous, having the consistency of putty, or dough. In this paper, the main purpose of the process is to investigate the surface finishing of die steel with the use of abrasiv...