he nutritive value of four arable farm by-products commonly fed to dairy cattle by small scale farmers in Kenya. III. Nitrogen and mineral retentions by wether sheep.

Abstract

Wether sheep were fed on (a) green maize stalks, (b) maize cobs, (c) sugarcane stalks and (d) sugarcane tops. All were low in N except (a) with 1.36%. A positive N balance of 3.4 and 1.4 g and a negative balance of 3.6 and 0.4 g was given by (a), (d), (c) and (b), resp. All the feeds were rich in Ca and K except for (b) which contained only 0.8% K, but Na and P content was low. All sheep had positive Ca and K balances, sheep fed (d) had a positive Na balance and all P balances were negative.