dc.description.abstract | The water content of ruminal fluid of sheep was estimated from twenty four sample, using "oven" and toluen methods. Ruminal fluid was collected from sheep that were given a ration consisted of 1% MBS dried cassava 4% from dried cassava wight, 5 g bone meal salt. Pennisetum purposum was given ad libitum. The effect of those methods was compared by using tast. The result showed that the water content wa 96.54% for 'oven" method and 96.10% for toluen method, respectively. the water content using the toluen method was highly significantly lower that using the "oven" method (P/0/.01) | id |