Urea Treated Rice Straw as a Basal Diet for Growing Ruminants:
Supplementation with Protein Rich Forages
Khuc Thi Hue
Goat and Rabbit Research Center Sontay, Hatay
National Institution of Animal Husbandry, Hanoi, Vietnam
This study was carried out at the Goat and Rabbit Research Center, Sontay, Hatay Province of the National Institution of Animal Husbandry, Hanoi, Vietnam during 2006 to 2007 in co-operation with Department of Animal Nutrition and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), and with financial support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Authority, Department for Research Cooperation (Sida/SAREC). I would like to express my gratitude to all for their support.
I would like to give my most sincere thanks to my main supervisor, Prof. Dr. Inger Ledin, Department of Animal Nutrition and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Science and associate supervisor Dr. Do Thi Thanh Van, National Institution of Animal Husbandry for their valuable guidance, corrections and comments and for encouraging me to accomplish this study, as well as the invaluable knowledge they have passed on to me.
I am grateful to Associate Prof. Dr. Dinh Van Binh, Director of the Goat and Rabbit Research Center, for granting me permission to participate in this course and the assistance given to me during the experimental time; to Dr. Nguyen Thi Mui for her encouragement and sharing her experience of working management; and also to Mrs. Nguyen Thi Dao, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Hanh, Mrs. Truong Thi Le, Ms. Hoang Thi Thuong, Ms. Nguyen Thi Huyen for their help in taking care my experiments.
Thanks also to Prof. Dr. Brian Ogle, Director of this project, Department of Animal Nutrition and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Science for checking the English of my thesis. Thanks to all my lecturers for their very interesting knowledge; thanks to Prof. Dr. Luu Trong Hieu, Dr. Ngo Van Man, Mr. Cong for their caring and arranging the courses for us; thanks also to all my classmates for their friendships during the course.
Last, I would like to give my best wishes to my parents for their sentiments and help in caring for my son during the course; to my husband for his love and his sharing in all happiness and sadness; to my son for his warmness given to me.