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Use of by-products for ruminant feeding in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1983)
Although the highly lignified arable farm by-products available in Kenya ranged in 1978 from 39 000 t for rice straw to 5 million t for bagasse, very little is used in livestock feed. Treatment of such by-products with ...
he nutritive value of four arable farm by-products commonly fed to dairy cattle by small scale farmers in Kenya. III. Nitrogen and mineral retentions by wether sheep.
(University of Nairobi, 1983)
Wether sheep were fed on (a) green maize stalks, (b) maize cobs, (c) sugarcane stalks and (d) sugarcane tops. All were low in N except (a) with 1.36%. A positive N balance of 3.4 and 1.4 g and a negative balance of 3.6 and ...
Mechanical strength of plaster casting bandages available in Kenya.
(1983)
Five plaster of Paris casting bandages including Nairobi Enterprises, Salvagyps,
Helm, Plasrun-gyps and Veronese, available on the Kenyan market were evaluated
based on breaking strength. Helm plaster of Paris had a ...
Biochemical and haematological effects of phenylbutazone in horses
(1983)
Five matched pairs of horses were used to investigate the effects of phenylbutazone on a range of physiological, biochemical and haematological variables. The drug was given by mouth daily for 15 consecutive days at the ...
Effects of feed restriction on production performance of replacement pullets
(1983)
Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of feed restriction on production performance of egg production pullets. In Experiment 1, two brown-egg strains (A and B) were subjected to full feeding, a restricted ...
Some economic effects of trypanosomiasis in goats.
(University of Nairobi., 1983-08)
A study into the economic effects of trypanosomiasis was carried out using three goat breeds at the south coast of Kenya. The economic losses were worked out by comparing the performance of the goat groups receiving Samorin ...
Invasion of capillary endothelial cells by Ehrlichia ondiri
(University of Nairobi, 1983)
Ultra-thin sections from two infected cattle killed in extremis revealed E. ondiri free in capillary lumens of the heart muscle and in the sinusoidal spaces of the liver and spleen. Similar organisms were seen in the kidney ...
Molar proportions of volatile fatty acids in the gastrointestinal tract of East African wild ruminants.
(1983)
The molar proportions of seven individual VFA's were determined at select sites along the gastrointestinal tract of sixteen species of East African wild ruminants. The resulting data were statistically analyzed for species ...
A comparative study of basal metabolism and thermoregulation in a folivorous (Colobus guereza) and an omnivorous (Cercopithecus mitis) primate species.
(University of Nairobi, 1983-02)
1. Abdominal temperatures (Tab) and oxygen consumption (VO2) were measured in two males each of colobus and Sykes monkeys. 2. Tab in both species had the same range (36 38.5 C), but there were marked differences in the ...
Cultivation of Pleurotus sajor-caju in Kenya
(University of Nairobi,, 1983)