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.
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1983Author
Kevelenge, JEE
Kiflewahid, B
Said, AN
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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 0.4 g was given by (a), (d), (c) and (b), resp. All the feeds were rich in Ca and K except for (b) which contained only 0.8% K, but Na and P content was low. All sheep had positive Ca and K balances, sheep fed (d) had a positive Na balance and all P balances were negative.
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http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19840758127.html?resultNumber=24&start=20&q=au%3A%22Said%2C+A.+N.%22http://hdl.handle.net/11295/87078
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Tropical Animal Production 1983 Vol. 8 No. 3 pp. 180-186Publisher
University of Nairobi