This study was carried out in Wolmera Woreda of the West Shoa Zone of Oromia Regional State from October 2007 to April 2008. Simple random type of sampling was used to select 300 households from five peasant association for questionnaire survey and 37 smallholder farmers, who got at least 25% of...
The study was conducted in Aad’a woreda East Shoa Zone of the Oremia Regional State from mid September 2007 to mid February 2008 with the following objectives. To assess the types and relative abundance of feeds consumed by scavenging local chicken, to determine the nutritive values of the...
The study was conducted in Aad’a woreda East Shoa Zone of the Oremia Regional State from mid September 2007 to mid February 2008 with the following objectives. To assess the types and relative abundance of feeds consumed by scavenging local chicken, to determine the nutritive values of the...
Crossectional and experimental studies were undertaken with the objectives of isolating, producing and efficacious trials of adjuvated formalin-killed fowl cholera vaccine from local isolates of P. multocida on layer chickens at the Department of Vaccine Production and Microbiology laboratory of...
The study has two parts. The first parts covers cross sectional study while the second part dealt with longitudinal investigation and conducted on private smallholder broiler farms having a flock size of 50-700 in Debre Zeit town, Ethiopia. Cross-sectional study was designed to gather information...
This study was conducted in the Wolayta and Gamogofa Zones of the Southern Nation Nationalities and People Region. Two districts, Kindo Koysha from Wolayta Zone (community tsetse controlled areas) and Arba-minch Zuria from Gamogofa Zone (tsetse challenged and STEP tsetse controlled areas) were...
A cross sectional study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence and associations with potential risk factors of brucellosis in cattle and humans in western zone of Tigray Regional State between October 2007 and February 2008. A two-stage cluster sampling method was used in this study. A total...
A cross sectional survey was conducted from November 2007 to April 2008 with the following objectives, to determine the prevalence of hydatidosis in food animals slaughtered at Addis Ababa Abattoir, study the effect of risk factors on the prevalence of hydatidosis, evaluate the size, fertility and...
A cross sectional survey was conducted from November 2007 to April 2008 with the following objectives, to determine the prevalence of hydatidosis in food animals slaughtered at Addis Ababa Abattoir, study the effect of risk factors on the prevalence of hydatidosis, evaluate the size, fertility and...
A cross-sectional study was conducted in Debate and Wembera districts of Metekele Administrative Zone, Benishangul Gumuze Regional State, between October 2007 and March 2008, to determine the sero-prevalence of brucellosis in cattle and humans as well as to identify the likely potential risk...
This study was carried out from November 30, 2007 to January 17, 2008 to determine the effects of the combination as well as full replacement of meat and bone meal (MBM) in broiler starter and finisher chickens diets with soybean meal (SBM) on daily feed intake, body weight gain, food conversion...
Serial ultrasonographic study was conducted on nine Jennies aged 5-14 years from December 2007 to April, 2008 with the objective of characterizing ovarian follicular activities and estrus manifestations under controlled management. The jennies were housed, fed on hay and concentrate, regularly...
The relationship between nutrition and reproduction is a topic of increasing importance. Many research reports have clearly demonstrated that energy, protein and minerals intake is the most important nutritional factors affecting reproduction in dairy cows. This is particularly evident in the...
Field and experimental investigations on bovine trypanosomosis and efficacy of selected trypanocidal drugs were undertaken in Konso district, southern Ethiopia, from September 2007 to April 2008, with major views to determine the prevalence and socioeconomic impacts of bovine trypanosomosis; assess...
A cross sectional study was conducted to determine prevalence, assess risk factors associated with fasciolosis and evaluate economic losses in four selected areas of Tigray Regional State, during September 2007 to May 2008. A total of 1736 domestic ruminants comprising of 1015 cattle, 526 sheep,...
A cross-sectional type of study was carried out to determine the status and major constraints of dairy cattle production in Addis Ababa. The study was undertaken from October 2007 to April 2008. 252 small, medium and large scale dairy owners of equal sample size and 18 participatory appraisal...
The purpose of this study was to find out the presence of association between carcass contamination with E. coli O157: H7 and fecal and skin prevalence of E. coli O157: H7 and to estimate coliform loads on before and after wash of sheep and goats carcasses at an export abattoir at Modjo, Ethiopia....
A cross sectional investigation of the bacteriological quality of milk and the prevalence of selected diseases of intensification was carried out on 31 intensive farms which were selected as clusters. Data was collected using questionnaire survey, farm observation, clinical examination, CMT,...
A cross-sectional study was conducted on 1138 heads of cattle at Kombolcha ELFORA meatrnprocessing plant, South-Wello Administrative Zone, Amarha Regional State from Novemberrn2007 to May 2008. The objectives of the study were to estimate the prevalence of bovinerntuberculosis in cattle slaughtered...
Quarter milk samples (n = 404) from 101 traditionally managed lactating camels (Camelusrndromedarius) in Gewane district of Afar region were examined to estimate the prevalence ofrnmastitis, identification of bacterial causes associated with mastitis and determine fat and proteinrncontent of camel...