Effect of supplementing a high-protein ram press sunflower cake concentrate on smallholder milk production in Zimbabwe

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 297-307

  Ngongoni, N T ^a   Mapiye, C ^b   Mwale, M ^b   Mupeta, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b University of Forthare   (South Africa)

^c Plan International   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Cow performance; Crossbred; Rumen parameters; Sunflower concentrate; Supplement; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; CROSS BREEDING; DAIRYING; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIGESTION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LACTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MILK; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN INTAKE; RANDOMIZATION; RUMINANT STOMACH; SECRETION; SUNFLOWER;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DAIRYING; DIETARY PROTEINS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DIGESTION; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FEMALE; HELIANTHUS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTATION; MILK; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RUMEN;

BOS; HELIANTHUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 34547441000     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-007-9018-0     Document Type: Article

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