[Botanical composition of food of domestic ruminants feeding from Senegalese farming fields using a histologic analysis of the feces: effect of the technique of preservation and centrifugation of feces]

Abstract

During a microhistological study of feces from domestic ruminants (cattle, sheep, goats), centrifugation was used to increase from 11 (classic method) to 93% the rate of dicotyledon epidermis in the total particles of the suspension. Regardless of the conservation method used (drying or addition of salt, formol or ethanol), a better analysis of the dicotyledon part of the diet was obtained.