Acknowledgements The authors of this paper gratefully acknowledge the Director KARI, for the financial support and research facilities, the Centre Director KARI, Kitale Charles None for the timely disbursement of funds and vehicles during the execution of this research and the Technical Staff in Pasture/Fodder research at KARI Kitale Mr. David Cheruiyot, John Kamau, David Asena, Patrick Imbali, Jane Kiptoo and N. Akinyi are gratefully acknowledged. We also thank the Principal Busia FTC for allowing us use their farm. Finally, the authors thank Mrs. Rose Nkonge for typing the manuscript.