Milk yield and quality in Guernsey cows fed cottonseed cake-based diets partially substituted with baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) seed cake

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-82

  Madzimure, James ^a,b   Musimurimwa, Carmen ^c   Chivandi, Eliton ^c,d   Gwiriri, Lovemore ^a   Mamhare, Eddison ^a  

^a Henderson Research Station Harare   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

^c MIDLANDS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Zimbabwe)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Baobab; Butterfat content; Lactose content; Milk yield; Protein content; Total solids

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT;

ADANSONIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COTTON; DAIRYING; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; ZIMBABWE;

ADANSONIA; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; GOSSYPIUM; LINEAR MODELS; MILK; PLANT EXTRACTS; SEEDS; ZIMBABWE;

ADANSONIA; ADANSONIA DIGITATA; GLYCINE MAX; MICROPUS;

EID: 78649948283     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-010-9656-5     Document Type: Article

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