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Culture Trials of Nile Perch Juveniles in Cages and Earthen Ponds
(2019-09)
Fish were obtained from Asembo Bay, Dunga, Kendu Bay, Homa Bay and Mbita beaches around Lake Victoria using beach seines (< 10-mm mesh). Fish were sorted by size and stocked into hapa nets, each measuring 3 m× 3 m× 1 m, ...
Attitude of indigenous chicken farmers towards agricultural insurance in Nyanza, Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2018-05-30)
Indigenous chicken (IC) contribute significantly to income and food security of rural communities. However, the IC are kept in systems that are characterised by high risk conditions such as diseases, predation, inadequate ...
Preliminary selection results for body weight in indigenous chicken in Kenya
(2015)
Body weight at 12 weeks of age records of 443 indigenous chicken, progeny of 44
sires were used to estimate preliminary results of selection for growth in indigenous chicken
in Kenya after two generations of selection. ...
A procedure for on-farm evaluation of East Coast Fever management in dairy cattle systems: a case of coastal lowlands of Kenya
(2015)
A study was designed to develop procedure for valuation of East Coast Fever
management through a factor based East Coast Fever management index. It quantified
costs of East Coast fever management factors and revenue ...
Digestibility and metabolizable energy intake equations of tropical ruminant forages using nutrient concentration of cattle faeces. Mazingira Center, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, September
(ILRI, 2020)
smallholders use feeds of unknown or highly variable
nutritive value undermining proper nutrition
determination of feed intake and accurate nutritive value in
grazing animals is resource-intensive
faecal collection ...
Farmers’ Attitude towards Risk on Indigenous Chicken in Nyanza Region
(AJAERD, 2018)
Kenya has an estimate of 25.9 million indigenous chicken that support livelihood of over 21 million
people in rural areas. Indigenous chicken production in Kenya is mainly under extensive and semi
intensive systems ...
Stem bark extracts of Erythrina excelsa (Baker) and their biological activities
(2016)
The species is known from Southern Nyanza, Migori in Kenya. The extraction of the stem bark was done
sequentially using organic solvents starting with the least polar; n-hexane then dichloromethane, ethyl
acetate and ...
Population Biology of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in Lake Naivasha, Kenya
(Wiley, 2020)
The Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) was introduced into Lake Naivasha to provide
exploitable fisheries, being one of the commercially important fish providing livelihoods to communities around the lake. Its stocks ...
Complete mitochondrial genome of the freshwater monogonont rotifer Brachionus rubens (Rotifera, Brachionidae
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
The two complete mitochondrial genomes were sequenced from the freshwater monogonont rotifer Brachionus rubens. The genome sequences were 12,041bp and 13,793bp in size, and the gene order and contents were identical to ...