Nutritive value and voluntary feed intake by goats of three browse fodder species in the Sahelian zone of West Africa

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Volumn 144, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 97-110

  Sanon, H O ^a   Kabore Zoungrana C ^b   Ledin, I ^c  

^a CRREA de l'Ouest   (Burkina Faso)

^b Polytechnic University of Bobo Dioulasso   (Burkina Faso)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acacia senegal; Browse fodder; Chemical composition; Digestibility; Guiera senegalensis; Intake; Pterocarpus lucens

Indexed keywords

ACACIA; ACACIA SENEGAL; ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVIDAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; GUIERA SENEGALENSIS; OVIS ARIES; PTEROCARPUS; PTEROCARPUS LUCENS; SCHOENEFELDIA GRACILIS;

EID: 44849110987     PISSN: 03778401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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