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Characterization of dairy cattle farming in Mbeere District of Eastern Kenya
(2011)
A comparison of farming systems in two divisions, Siakago and Evurore of Mbeere district of Eastern Kenya was made using data collected with a farm model, Integrated Modeling Platform for mixed Agriculture Crop sysTem ...
Parasitic causes of liver and heart condemnation and their economic effects in the Lake Victoria Basin: a retrospective abattoir survey in Kisumu Municipality, Kenya
(2012)
Malnutrition is a major cause of human mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa and every effort must be made to
conserve the available sources of protein for human use. Animals and especially livestock are a major source of ...
Peritoneal Drains in Perforated Appendicitis without Peritonitis: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Study.
(2011)
Background: Appendicitis is recognized worldwide as the commonest surgical
emergency. Its management becomes more challenging when the patient presents with
perforated appendicitis In the western world To determine the ...
Prediction of live body weight using length and girth measurements for pigs in rural Western Kenya
(2011-01-15)
To develop and validate a pig weight-estimation method using body length and girth measurements. Methods: In a random sample of 288 smallholder pig farms in Western Kenya, pigs were weighed (kg) and their lengths and girths ...
Peste des petits ruminants in Kenya; Pastoralist knowledge of the disease in goats in Samburu and Baringo Counties
(2012)
Peste des Petits Ruminants disease outbreak was reported in Turkana County in Kenya in 2007. This was the
first time PPR had clinically been reported in Kenya. Peste des Petits Ruminants disease was then assumed to ...
Factors Influencing transfer and Adoption of Dairy Goats technology in Meru County, Kenya: Prospects and Constraints.
(University of Nairobi,, 2011)
Non-credit services of group-based financial institutions: Implications for smallholder women's honey income in arid and semi arid lands of Kenya
(2010)
This paper analyses the effect of non-credit services of joint liability credit institutions on smallholder
women beekeepers’ honey income. The non-credit services offered to the beekeepers were mainly
enterprise development ...
Brine shrimp toxicity and in vitro antimicrobial activity of Piliostigma thonningii (Schum.) Milne-Redh. [Leguminosae-Caesalpinioideae] from Kenya and Malawi against some pathogens of human and veterinary importance.
(University of Nairobi,, 2013)
Many microorganisms are responsible for causing serious diseases of bacterial origin. Development of drug resistance in animal and human pathogens against commonly used antibiotics has necessitated a search for new ...
Use of brachial plexus blockade and medetomidine-ketamine-isoflurane anaesthesia for repair of radio-ulna fracture in an adult cheetah (acinonyx jubatus).
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
Background
Regional anaesthetic techniques have been used in combination with systemic analgesics during small animal surgery to provide multimodal analgesia. Brachial plexus nerves block using local anaesthetics provides ...