reportedly characterized by a bitter taste and have been known to reduce palatability of
reports on the effect of feeding m. oleifera to pigs on carcass characteristics are scarce
obtained in the present study are in line with those of Zanu et al. (2012), who observed that
of 5%, 10% and 15% of MOLM into broiler feed did not cause significant differences
characteristics. Some studies have reported on the nutritional composition and polyphen
meat from goats fed m. oleifera leaves (Moyo et al., 2011; Qwele et al., 2013). The feeding
significant improvements in quality traits such as the colour 24 hours post mortem of go
studies, contrary to the findings in the current study (Qwele et al., 2013). An explanation for
differences in physico-chemical meat quality in the present study may be that while nutrition
on physico-chemical meat quality, another major factor responsible for changes in me
physiological response of the animal to stress during transportation, handling and slaughter