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The comparative digestive powers of zebu and high-grade European cattle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

M. H. French
Affiliation:
Veterinary Laboratory, Mpwapwa, Tanganyika Territory

Extract

1. With three different groups, each of two zebu and two zebu × Ayrshire grade oxen, and ten typical East African feeding stuffs, no significant difference was found between the average digestibility coefficients recorded with the zebu and the grade oxen.

2. The slight differences in feeding values were also of no practical significance.

3. Some of the zebu × Ayrshire cattle were 3/4 and others 7/8 Ayrshire but the higher grading to the European breed apparently did not affect the digestive powers.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1940

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