This booklet is designed to guide extension workers and possibly smallholder dairy farmers through the basics of feeding dairy animals. It includes essential background information as well as practical advice and suggestions. By better understanding how a cow digests its food, the importance of p...
Lukuyu, Margaret N.
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Romney, D.L.
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Ouma, R.
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Sones, Keith R.
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[Feeding dairy cattle: a manual for smallholder dairy farmers and extension workers in East Africa]
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Feeding dairy cattle: a manual for smallholder dairy farmers and extension workers in East Africa
The guide aims to provide all the most important information needed to design and implement effective systems including those that combine sweetpotato with a range of other crops, either as intercrops or in rotations, but with the primary focus on sweetpotato.
Evaluates the productivity of grade Boran cattle maintained by chemoprophylaxis under severe trypanosomiasis risk at Mkwaja ranch, Tanzania; uses data based on more than 20,000 calving records over the 10-year period from 1973 to 1982; discusses environmental influences on performance traits and ...
Trail, J.C.M.
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Sones, Keith R.
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Jibbo, J.M.C.
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Durkin, J.W.
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Light, D.E.
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Murray, M.
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[Productivity of Boran cattle maintained by chemoprophylaxis under trypanosomiasis risk]
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Productivity of Boran cattle maintained by chemoprophylaxis under trypanosomiasis risk