Nutritive value of sweet potato (Ipomea batatas (L) Lam) forage as goat feed: Voluntary intake, growth and digestibility of mixed rations of sweet potato and batiki grass (Ischaemum aristatum var. indicum)

Small Ruminant Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 235-241

  Aregheore, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Samoa)

Author keywords

Batiki grass; Goats; Mixed diets; Samoa; Sweet potato

Indexed keywords

CAPRA HIRCUS; IPOMOEA; IPOMOEA BATATAS; ISCHAEMUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 1242277782     PISSN: 09214488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-4488(03)00198-6     Document Type: Article

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