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Tour Firms’ Readiness to Cater for Physically Impaired Tourists in Kenya
(2019-10)
The concept of accessible tourism aims to facilitate physically impaired tourists to participate in mainstream tourism activities. Although it is a requirement for tour firms to have requisites to handle physically impaired ...
Effect Of Replacing Fish Meal With Blood Meal OnChemical Composition Of Supplement For NileTilapia (Oreochromis Niloticus)
(2016-04)
The objective of the work was to evaluate the effect on the nutrientcontent of replacingfish meal (FM) with blood meal (BM) infishsupplement. Three isonitrogenous diets (35% crude protein) wereformulated using FM as the ...
Effects of Nutrients Utilization on Feeding Fortified Sweet Potato Vines with Roasted Soy Bean Meal at Different Time Regimes by Dairy Goats
(2019-10)
In Kenya, Napier grass (NP) and sweet potato vines (SPV) are some of the main source of feeds for dairy goats in low-inputs farming systems. The two, contains both high moisture and rumen degradable protein (RUP) which ...
Chemical Composition and Nutritional Values of Feed Resources for Ruminants
(2013-01)
Information on chemical characteristics and nutritional values of feeds is essential for diet formulation
and for developing optimum and economic feeding strategies of various classes of farm animals at
different ...
Determination of Essential Minerals and Toxic Elements Composition of the Natural Licks Consumed By Livestock in Tharaka-Nithi County, Kenya
(2015-10)
The aim of this study was to determine the quantities of essential and toxic elements in the natural licks consumed by livestock in Igambang�ombe Division in Tharaka-Nithi County, Kenya. Ten highly used licks, five moderately ...
Knowledge, Attitude and Practices towards Paratuberculosis in Cattle and Sheep in Kericho County and Konoin Sub-County, Kenya
(2019-09)
A study was carried out to determine the knowledge, attitude and practices towards bovine and ovine paratuberculosis by farmers in Kericho County, Kenya. Semi-structured questionnaires were ...
Performance of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) Fed Diets Containing Blood Meal as a Replacement of Fish Meal
(2016)
A 100 days experiment was conducted to determine the effect of feeding blood meal (BM) as a replacement of fish meal (FM), as the main source of animal protein, on growth rate and economic performance of Nile tilapia in ...
Spatial Modelling of Current and Future Piped Domestic Water Demand in Athi River Town, Kenya
(2019-11)
Water scarcity is currently still a global challenge despite the fact that water sustains life on earth. An understanding of domestic water demand is therefore vital for effective water management. In order to understand ...
Sensory attributes and quality of meat in improved indigenous chicken fed on Prosopis juliflora pods in Kenya
(2017-11)
Evaluation ofthe sensory and meat quality was performed on Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) improved chicken (KIC) fed on diets incorporated with ground Prosopis juliflora pods (GPJP. Breast ...
Effect of substituting maize in the grower diet with ground Prosopis juliflora pods on performance of indigenous chicken in Kenya
(2018-11-07)
Ninety-six KARLO improved chicken (KIC) aged 8 weeks were used to study the effect of replacing the maize component in commercial grower feed with Prosopis juliflora pods on growth performance. A commercial grower feed, ...