Botanical and nutritional composition of maize stover, intakes and feed selection by dairy cattle
Maize stover is the most abundant crop residue in the central Kenya highlands and it is often the sole forage offered to dairy cattle during the dry seasons. In recent years increasing offer rates of crop residues (excess feeding) to promote selective feeding by confined animals has been shown to im...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Elsevier
2001
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/29196 |
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