The nutritive value of sunflower meal and its effect on replacing cereal straw in the diets of lactating ewes and goats

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 89-97

  Economides, S ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Goats; Lactating ewes; Nutritive value; Sunflower meal

Indexed keywords

BOVIDAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; HELIANTHUS; OVIS;

EID: 0002045538     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-6226(98)00118-3     Document Type: Article

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