Effect of partly replacing cottonseed cake with Mucuna spp. (var. Ghana) hay on feed intake and digestibility, milk yield and milk composition of zebu cows

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 38, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 563-570

  Sidibe Anago, A G ^a   Ouedraogo, G A ^b   Ledin, I ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET DE RECHERCHES AGRICOLES   (Burkina Faso)

^b Polytechnic University of Bobo Dioulasso   (Burkina Faso)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Composition; Cottonseed cake; Digestibility; Intake; Milk yield; Mucuna; Zebu cows

Indexed keywords

COTTON SEED OIL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; DIGESTION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; EATING; FEMALE; LACTATION; METABOLISM; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; RANDOMIZATION; SECRETION;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; COTTONSEED OIL; DIGESTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EATING; FEMALE; LACTATION; MILK; POACEAE; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

BOS INDICUS; BOS TAURUS; MICROPUS; MUCUNA; MUCUNA DEERINGIANA;

EID: 33845655499     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-006-4428-y     Document Type: Article

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