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Comparison of available and required metabolisable energy (ME) resources for livestock during winter in an agro-pastoral system of the Hindu Kush – Himalayan region of Pakistan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

R. Abdur ,
A.J. Duncan ,
I.J. Gordon ,
I. A. Wright ,
D.W. Miller ,
P. Frutos  and
R. Atiq
R. Abdur
Affiliation:
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, Scotland, UK
A.J. Duncan
Affiliation:
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, Scotland, UK
I.J. Gordon
Affiliation:
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, Scotland, UK
I. A. Wright
Affiliation:
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, Scotland, UK
D.W. Miller
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture & Forestry, University of Aberdeen, King Street, Aberdeen AB24 5UA, UK
P. Frutos
Affiliation:
Estacion Agricola Experimental, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) Apdo788, 24080-Leon Spain
R. Atiq
Affiliation:
Animal Science Institute, National Agriculture Research Council (NARC), Park Road, Islamabad, Pakistan
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The semi-arid Hindu-Kush-Karakoram-Himalayan region of Pakistan covers 72,000 sq km with a rainfall of 100-400 mm per year5. Limited arable land and water scarcity have made subsistence farming the dominant agro-pastoral farming system. Each household keeps a range of ruminant livestock species such as goats, cattle, sheep, donkeys and yaks their proportion in the herd are 0.53, 0.23, 0.19, 0.03 and 0.02 respectively. In winter, livestock are confined and stall-fed on stored roughages or grazed on marginal lands and fallow agricultural fields close to the villages. The aim of this study was to quantify nutritional inputs in terms of metabolisable energy resources, and to compare these with ME requirements of the animals for maintenance over winter.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2002 , 2002 , pp. 60
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2002

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