Use of by-products for ruminant feeding in Kenya
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1983Author
Said, AN
Sundstol, F .
Tubei, SK
Musimba, NKR
Ndegwa, FC
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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 NaOH, ammonia or a natural salt deposit called Magadi showed that their DMD could be improved significantly. Further trials comparing sorghum silage, ammonia-treated maize stover and Chloris gayana hay gave DM contents of 38-45%, 89% and 94.15%, resp., showing that a treated by-product can equal the nutritive value of a medium-quality hay.
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http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19830746224.html?resultNumber=42&start=40&q=au%3A%22Said%2C+A.+N.%22http://hdl.handle.net/11295/87085
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By-product utilization for animal production [Kiflewahid, B.; Potts, G.R.; Drysdale, R.M. (Editors)]. 1983 pp. 60-70Publisher
University of Nairobi