Studies labour requirements, opportunity costs, and problems of hay making by pastoral women for households involved in initial extension activities in 1990. It provides a close link of research with extension and reveals wether hay making could be a viable intervention. Includes data for hay mak...
Coppock, D.L.
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[Hay making by pastoral women for improved calf management in Ethiopia: Labour requirements, opportunity costs, and feasibility of intervention]
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Hay making by pastoral women for improved calf management in Ethiopia: Labour requirements, opportunity costs, and feasibility of intervention
A 90-day growth trial was designed to compare the performance of calves on 3 dry-season diets composed of local resources from the Borana pastoral system. The control group received the traditional diet of cut- and carry, standing - brown grass while the other diets consisted of grass hay stored ...
Coppock, D.L.
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[Grass hay and acacia fruits: A local feeding system for improved calf performance in semi-arid Ethiopia]
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Grass hay and acacia fruits: A local feeding system for improved calf performance in semi-arid Ethiopia
Examines some interactions of market access and family wealth on household milk allocation for calves and people. Evaluates implications in terms of mortality and morbidity rates of nursing calves and the composition and nutritional value of human diets. Presents surveys of pastoral households in...
Holden, S.J.
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Coppock, D.L.
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Assefa, M.
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[Pastoral dairy marketing and household wealth interactions and their implications for calves and humans in Ethiopia]
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Pastoral dairy marketing and household wealth interactions and their implications for calves and humans in Ethiopia
Reports on how seasonal change influences various management tactics, time budgets, travel distances and water intakes of livestock during one annual cycle.
Coppock, D.L.
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Ellis, J.E.
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Swift, D.M.
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[Seasonal patterns of activity, travel and water intake for livestock in south Turkana, Kenya]
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Seasonal patterns of activity, travel and water intake for livestock in south Turkana, Kenya
A study undertaken to characterise and contrast some important chemical attributes of herbaceous and nonherbaceous forages selected by Ngisonyoka livestock throughout one annual cycle in Kenya.
Coppock, D.L.
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Swift, D.M.
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Ellis, J.E.
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Waweru, S.K.
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[Seasonal nutritional characteristics of livestock forage in south Turkana, Kenya]
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Seasonal nutritional characteristics of livestock forage in south Turkana, Kenya
Competition for milk between calves and pastoral herders may reduce weaning weights, retard growth, and delay puberty in cattle. Calf supplementation could over-ride such effects and improve pastoral economies. To examine these issues in semiarid Ethiopia, 266 Boran calves (Bos indicus) were used...
Coppock, D.L.
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Sovani, S.
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[Is supplementation justified to compensate pastoral calves for milk restriction?]
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Is supplementation justified to compensate pastoral calves for milk restriction?
Evaluates the dry-matter digestibilities of some important herbaceous and browse forages from an arid rangeland in north-western Kenya in a comparative in vitro trial using rumen fluid from indigenous sheep, goats, camel, and Merino sheep.
Coppock, D.L.
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Ellis, J.E.
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Waweru, S.K.
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[A comparative in vitro digestion trial using inoculum of livestock from south Turkana and Kitale, Kenya]
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A comparative in vitro digestion trial using inoculum of livestock from south Turkana and Kitale, Kenya
A study conducted to characterize the effects of species-specific food habits, body size, and season on various aspects of diet quality and to evaluate diet quality with respect to established feeding standards for maintainance.
Presents results of a survey designed to determine the effects of distance to market, family wealth, and season on the quantity of dairy products sold per person and per lactating animal. Quantifies the contribution of dairy marketing to the household economy on an annual and seasonal basis and a...
Holden, S.J.
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Coppock, D.L.
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[Effects of distance to market, season, and family wealth on pastoral dairy marketing in Ethiopia]
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Effects of distance to market, season, and family wealth on pastoral dairy marketing in Ethiopia
Temporal and spatial variabilities in rainfall, herbaceous production and biomass were studied over a 4-year period in a topographically diverse, arid pastoral region of northwest Kenya. A significant relation between rainfall and primary production was found, and this was applied in a manner tha...
Coughenour, M.B.
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Coppock, D.L.
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Ellis, J.E.
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[Herbaceous forage variability in an arid pastoral region of Kenya: Importance of topographic and rainfall gradients]
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Herbaceous forage variability in an arid pastoral region of Kenya: Importance of topographic and rainfall gradients