摘要
<span style="font-family:Verdana;">An experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance and blood para</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">meters</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> of West African Dwarf (WAD) bucks fed graded levels of toasted</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> baobab seed meal for 84 days. Baobab seeds were washed, sun-dried and toasted uniformly using a cast iron pan. The toasted baobab seeds were crushed with a roller mill grinding machine to make baobab seed meal (BSM). The BSM </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">was included at 0%, 25%, 50% and 75% levels in diets 1, 2, 3 and 4 </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">respectively to replace soybean. Each treatment was replicated four times in a completely randomized design. Uncoagulated blood samples were collected from WAD bucks at the end of the 84 days</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">’</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> feeding trial and analysed for packed cell volume (PCV), haemoglobin concentrate (Hb), red blood cells (RBC) and w</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">hite blood cells (WBC). The mean corpuscular haemoglobin volu</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">me (MCV), mean corpuscular haemoglobin (MCH), platelets, neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, and basophils were calculated using PCV, RBC and Hb. The blood meant for serological analysis was centrifuged at 1000</span></span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">G for 10 minutes, after which the serum was separated and used for determining serum total protein (Tp), albumin, serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) and serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT).</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> <span
<span style="font-family:Verdana;">An experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance and blood para</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">meters</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> of West African Dwarf (WAD) bucks fed graded levels of toasted</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> baobab seed meal for 84 days. Baobab seeds were washed, sun-dried and toasted uniformly using a cast iron pan. The toasted baobab seeds were crushed with a roller mill grinding machine to make baobab seed meal (BSM). The BSM </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">was included at 0%, 25%, 50% and 75% levels in diets 1, 2, 3 and 4 </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">respectively to replace soybean. Each treatment was replicated four times in a completely randomized design. Uncoagulated blood samples were collected from WAD bucks at the end of the 84 days</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">’</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> feeding trial and analysed for packed cell volume (PCV), haemoglobin concentrate (Hb), red blood cells (RBC) and w</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">hite blood cells (WBC). The mean corpuscular haemoglobin volu</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">me (MCV), mean corpuscular haemoglobin (MCH), platelets, neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, and basophils were calculated using PCV, RBC and Hb. The blood meant for serological analysis was centrifuged at 1000</span></span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">G for 10 minutes, after which the serum was separated and used for determining serum total protein (Tp), albumin, serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) and serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT).</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> <span