Research Article
Effects of Calliandra and Sesbania on Daily Milk Production in Dairy Cows on Commercial Smallholder Farms in Kenya
Table 1
Distribution of animal parameters among different groups prior to the intervention for 80 smallholder dairy farms near Meru, Kenya, in 2016.
| Parameter | Comparison group mean (s.d.) | Nutrition group mean (s.d.) | Combined group mean (s.d.) | Reproduction group mean (s.d.) | ANOVA value |
| Height (cm) | 124.3 (19.7) | 115.9 (7.0) | 119.0 (7.3) | 118.6 (6.7) | 0.165 | Weight (kg) | 387.8 (77.3) | 383.7 (71.6) | 391.9 (60.1) | 395.6 (59.5) | 0.922 | Body condition score | 2.2 (0.5) | 2.1 (0.5) | 2.2 (0.5) | 2.2 (0.6) | 0.625 | Age (years) | 5.8 (2.0) | 5.5 (2.0) | 5.5 (2.2) | 5.8 (2.5) | 0.949 | Parity | 2.5 (1.3) | 2.5 (1.6) | 2.7 (1.5) | 2.7 (1.5) | 0.932 | Pregnant (%) | 38.7% (12/31) | 40.6% (13/32) | 25.0% (8/32) | 38.9% (14/36) | 0.848α |
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α value from Fisher’s exact test. |