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ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2019

Effect of Varying Inclusion Levels of Fossil Shell Flour on Growth Performance, Water Intake, Digestibility and N Retention in Dohne-Merino Wethers.

Olusegun O Ikusika, Conference T Mpendulo, Titus J Zindove, Anthony I Okoh

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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Olusegun O IkusikaDepartment of Livestock and Pasture Science, Faculty of Science and Agriculture, University of Fort Hare, Alice 5700, South Africa. pastorikusika@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-6646-8341
Conference T MpenduloDepartment of Livestock and Pasture Science, Faculty of Science and Agriculture, University of Fort Hare, Alice 5700, South Africa.
Titus J ZindoveDepartment of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Science Education, Bindura 263, Zimbabw.
Anthony I OkohSAMRC Microbial Water Quality Monitoring Centre, University of Fort Hare, Alice 5700, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-9770-085X
University of Fort Hare · ZABindura University of Science Education · ZW

Funding

South African Medical Research Council P970
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study was carried out to determine the effect of varying levels of Fossil shell flour (FSF) supplementation on growth performance, water intake, digestibility and N retention in Dohne Merino sheep pursuant to establishing the optimum inclusion rate of this supplement in Dohne Merino diets. Sixteen Dohne-Merino wethers (18 ± 1.5 kg body weight) were used in a complete randomized design with four animals per treatment. Sheep were fed a basal diet without FSF addition (control, T1), or with the addition of FSF (2%, T2), (4%, T3) or (6%, T4) of the diet for 105 days. Treatment 3 (4% FSF) has the highest values of dry matter intake, total weight gain, N retention and for most of the apparent digestibility nutrients (CP, EE and Ash) compared to treatment T1, T2 and T4(

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digestibilityDohne-MerinoFossil shell flourgrowth performancenitrogen utilization

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PMID31426359
PMCPMC6720258
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