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Composition and yield of milk from non-dairy goats and sheep in Malawi

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Title Composition and yield of milk from non-dairy goats and sheep in Malawi
 
Creator Banda, J.W.
Steinbach, J.
Zerfas, H.P.
 
Subject SHEEP
GOATS
RUMINANTS
BREEDS
PRODUCTIVITY
AFRICA
MALAWI
 
Description Milk yield, milk composition and growth rates of offspring from goats (local-LL, Boer-BB and their crosses-Be) and of sheep (local-LL, Dorper-DD and their crosses-De) were estimated over two kidding/lambing seasons for 12 weeks of lactation using three techniques of milk-yield estimation, namely kid/lamb suckling, hand-milking and oxytocin + hand-milking.Mean total milk production in the dry end wet seasons was 84.6±3.1, and 66.8 ± 2.6kg, respectively, for goats; 50.2 ± 1.7 and 49.3 ± 1.9 kg, respectively, for sheep. Only the seasonal difference in goats was significant (P
 
Date 2016-02-08T09:03:11Z
2016-02-08T09:03:11Z
1992
 
Type Conference Paper
 
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10568/70827
 
Language en
 
Publisher ILCA