**6. Dietary treatment**

The basal diet for the experiment was guinea grass (Panicum maximum). Four concentrate diets with different levels of *adansonia digitata* (0, 5, 10, and 15%) were prepared. (Table 1). The four groups of WAD rams were randomly assigned to the treatments using completely randomized designed (CRD) with the treatment as the only source of variability apart from the experimental error. The animals were supplied concentrate twice daily between the hours of 8 and 9a.m and 3 and 4p.m at the rate of 0.4kg/animal/day out which 0.2kg was supplied in the morning and 0.2 in the afternoon so as to control feed wastages. Each group was also supplied 5 litres of water daily. The dietary treatment lasted for 10 weeks excluding one week dietary adjustment period. The one week dietary adjustment period was to flush out the residues of the previous feed from the gut of the rams thereby eliminating carry-over effects of previous feed.
