Abstract 324

Child,-RD; Njuki,-JN; Hansen,-RM; Whittington,-DL

National Range Research Station, PO Box 12, Makindu, Kenya.

East-African-Agricultural-and-Forestry-Journal. 1982, 48: 1/4, 32-34; 7 ref., publ. 1985.

Nitrogen was estimated in samples of Leucaena leucocephala at 8 different stages of growth in Kenya before and after the digestion index was estimated by the nylon bag method in the rumen of a Sahiwal heifer weighing about 300 kg. Mean rumen digestion index for ground samples was from 13.6% for shattered pods to 90.6% for small developing pods. Rumen digestible protein was from 0.1% for shattered pods to 30.2% for small new pods.