| dc.contributor.author | Abate, A | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-04-07T08:09:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-04-07T08:09:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1989 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Small Ruminant Research 1989 Vol. 2 No. 4 pp. 299-306 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19901422923.html?resultNumber=5&q=au%3A%22Abate%2C+A.%22 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/81914 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Twenty goats, aged 7 months and weighing between 13 and 18 kg, were given diets containing 0, 20, 40 and 60% coffee pulp and hay ad libitum for 20 weeks. Metabolizable energy (ME) intake was estimated in vitro during 12- and 8-week periods and related to liveweight gain in a regression involving 40 sets of data. A maintenance requirement of ME 556 kJ kg-0.75 day-1 was calculated, which was similar to some reports in the literature but exceeded others by 20%. Less variable was energy cost of gain which was estimated at 27.9 kJ ME per g. Efficiency of utilization of ME for growth was 35.8%. Values reported here are useful for feeding Kenyan goats under confinement. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en_US |
| dc.title | Metabolizable energy requirements for maintenance of Kenyan goats | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.type.material | en | en_US |
