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Effects of Feeding Hay on the Early Wet Season Weight Loss of Cattle in Western Tanzania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

B. Walker
B. Walker
Affiliation:
Western Research Centre, Ukiriguru, Mwanza, Tanzania
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Summary

At Ukiriguru, in Western Tanzania, cattle often lose weight appreciably in the first few weeks of the wet season. Three levels of supplementary hay feeding, compared over this period, showed initial effects, but the final weight differences between treatments were not significant due to the effects of later compensatory growth. Differences between treatments during the weight loss and compensatory growth phases can be mainly attributed to differences in dry matter intake, rather than differences in actual body weight.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1969 , pp. 53 - 57
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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