The nutritive value of four arable farm by-products commonly fed to dairy cattle by small-scale farmers in Kenya. I. Organic structural components and in vitro digestibility.

dc.contributor.author	Kevelenge, JEE
dc.contributor.author	Said, AN
dc.contributor.author	Kiflewahid, B
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-10T07:49:02Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-10T07:49:02Z
dc.date.issued	1983
dc.identifier.citation	Tropical Animal Production 1983 Vol. 8 No. 3 pp. 162-170	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19840758124.html?resultNumber=22&start=20&q=au%3A%22Said%2C+A.+N.%22
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11295/87077
dc.description.abstract	Neutral detergent fibre (NDF) content of (a) maize stalks (60.9%), (b) maize cobs (86.7%) and (c) sugarcane tope (63.3%) was significantly higher than that of (d) sugarcane stalks (40.6%). DM digestibility (DMD) from in vitro digestible NDF and neutral detergent solubles was higher in (a) and (d) than (b) and (c). In vivo DMD was predicted from Van Soest in vitro DMD. In vitro DMD obtained by the 2-stage technique compared favourably with the Van Soest method, and the 2 techniques were successful under conditions at Kitale for predicting nutritive quality of high fibre roughages.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Nairobi	en_US
dc.title	The nutritive value of four arable farm by-products commonly fed to dairy cattle by small-scale farmers in Kenya. I. Organic structural components and in vitro digestibility.	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.type.material	en	en_US