Grazing and rangeland development for livestock production: Management of rangelands and other grazing lands of the tropics and subtropics for support of livestock production. Technical Series Bulletin No. 23: VI. Estimating Feed Requirements of Ruminant Livestock in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Regions.

Grazing and rangeland development for livestock production

Management of rangelands and other grazing lands of the tropics and subtropics for support of livestock production. Technical Series Bulletin No. 23

VI. Estimating Feed Requirements of Ruminant Livestock in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Regions.

		1. Feed requirements for cattle.
		2. Feed requirements for sheep and goats
		3. Feed values of edible forage plants.
		4. Relative feed values of growing forage plants on rangeland and pastures, and of mature plants.
		5. Feed value of crop byproducts.
		6. Balancing livestock numbers against total yearly feed supplies.

VI. Estimating Feed Requirements of Ruminant Livestock in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Regions.

Precise information is generally lacking for a specific region, but general criteria may be formulated from fragmentary data in a few instances, supplemented with more comprehensive evaluations from rangeland livestock in the dry temperate zone regions.

For convenience, guidelines as to nutrient requirements of ruminant livestock (particularly cattle, sheep and goats), may be expressed in daily and yearly feed requirements expressed in total dry weight of forages consumed, and in the animal needs for total digestible nutrients (TDN), and crude protein.