Effects of feeding commercial and locally formulated milk replacers on performance of camel calves in Kenya

Camel calves’ in pastoral production system are constrained by limited milk feeding. Their survival is important for camel herd growth and availability the keepers. A seventy (70) days feeding trial was conducted to determine nutritive value, dry matter intake, weight gain, feed conversion ratio (FCR), apparent digestibility coefficients 15 growing calves with a body of 102.3 ±1.3 Kg (mean ± SE). They were randomly assigned plant based replacer (PBMR) commercial (CMR) diets randomized complete block design (RCBD) five replications. The Crude Protein (CP), Metabolizable Energy (ME) Dry Matter (DM) among other components significantly (p