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Workshop on Forages for Pigs and Rabbits

Edited by:
Reg Preston (trpreston@mekarn.org)
Brian Ogle (brian.ogle@huv.slu.se)

Organized and Sponsored by
CelAgrid and MEKARN Programme

Phnom Penh, 22-24 August 2006

The papers presented at this workshop are now being edited.  Entries with a number refer to the full paper.
Remaining links are to the abstracts which will be replaced by the full papers as these become available.

 

Forages for pigs

1 Forages for Pigs: Nutritional, Physiological and Practical Implications; B Ogle
 
2 Forages as protein sources for pigs in the tropics; T R Preston
 
3 Genetic and nutritional diversity of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica) and water hyacinth (Echhornia crassipes) and their potential as pig feed in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam; Le Thi Men 
 
4 The effect of substituting a basal diet for growing pigs with fresh forages on apparent digestibility and nitrogen retention; Nguyen Nhat Xuan Dung, Luu Huu Manh, Truong van Phuoc, Peter Udén and Brian Ogle
 
5 Effect of water spinach and fresh cassava leaves on growth performance of pigs fed a basal diet of broken rice; Chhay Ty and T R Preston
 
6 Effect of different ratios of water spinach and fresh cassava leaves on growth of pigs fed basal diets of broken rice or mixture of rice bran and cassava root meal; Chhay Ty and T R Preston
 
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Review of the nutritive value and effects of inclusion of forages in diets for pigs; Bui Huy Nhu Phuc

8 Ensiling leaves of Taro (Colocasia esculenta) with sugar cane molasses; Malavan Chittavong, T R Preston and R B Ogle 
 
9 New Cocoyam (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) leaves as partial replacement for soya bean meal in sugar cane juice diets for growing pigs; Lylian Rodríguez, Deibys J Lopez, T R Preston and K Peters
 
10 The effects of simple processing methods of cassava leaves on HCN content, intake and performance by growing pigs; Du Thanh Hang,  N. Q. Linh, T R Preston, H. Everts and A. C. Beynen
 
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Study on the use of Alocasia macrorrhiza (roots and leaves) in diets for crossbred growing pigs under mountainous village conditions in northern Vietnam; Pham Sy Tiep, Nguyen Van Luc, Trinh Quang Tuyen, Nguyen Manh Hung and Tran Van Tu,
 

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Agricultural potential and utilization of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) as forage for fattening pigs in the Mekong delta of Vietnam; Nguyen Ba Trung
 

13 The use of ensiled cassava leaves for on farm pigs feeding in central Vietnam; Nguyen Thi Hoa Ly, HUAF
14 The use and potential of supplementing village pigs with Stylosanthes guianensis in Lao PDR; Phonepaseuth Phengsavanh and Werner Stür
 
15 Nitrogen balance studies in pigs fed sugar cane juice and fresh leaves of New Cocoyam (Xanthosoma sagittifolium); Lylian Rodríguez, Irina Irina Peniche and T R Preston
 
16 Effects on sow reproduction and piglet performance of replacing soybean meal by a mixture of sweet potato leaves, water spinach and fresh cassava foliage in the gestation and lactation diets of Mong Cai and Yorkshire sows. Hoang Nghia Duyet, Truong Thi Thuan and Nguyen Duc Son
 
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Pigs familiar with duckweed readily accept another unfamiliar green feed, Leucaena leucocephala. Dam Van Tien

 

Forages for rabbits

18 Digestion in the rabbit -a new look at the effects of their feeding and digestive strategies; R A Leng
 
19 Effect of offering leaves or stems of water spinach on patterns of eating, consumption of caecotropes and excretion of faeces by growing rabbits; Pok Samkol, T R Preston and R A Leng
 
20 Effect of supplementation level of water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica) leaves in diets based on para grass (Brachiaria mutica) on intake, nutrient utilization, growth rate and economic returns of crossbred rabbits in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam; Nguyen Thi Kim Dong, Nguyen Van Thu, R B Ogle and T R Preston
 
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Effect of dietary protein supply on the reproductive performance of crossbred rabbits; Nguyen Thi Kim Dong, Nguyen Van Thu and T R Preston
 

22 Effect on feed intake and growth of depriving rabbits access to caecotrophes; Chiv Phiny and Lampheuy Kaensombath
 
23 Effect of Guinea grass on feed intake, digestibility and growth performance of rabbits fed a molasses block and either water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica) or potato (Ipomoea batatas L) vines; Doan Thi Gang, Khuc Thi Hue, Dinh Van Binh and Nguyen Thi Mui

 

 

Growing protein-rich forages

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The use of different levels of effluent from plastic biodigester loaded with pig manure for mulberry (Morus alba) tree growth; Chiv Phiny, Khieu Borin and Chhay Ty, CelAgrid, Camboda
 

25 Effect of increasing area of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) relative to Flemingia (Flemingia macrophylla) on biomass yield, soil fertility and soil erosion; Ngo Tien Dzung and T R Preston