The effect of roughage to concentrate ratio in the diet on nitrogen and purine metabolism in dairy cows

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-42

  Gonda, Horacio Leandro ^a   Emanuelson, Margareta ^a   Murphy, Michael ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Creatinine; Milk urea; Nitrogen balance; Plasma urea; Roughage to concentrate ratio; Urinary allantoin; Urinary urea

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0002048446     PISSN: 03778401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8401(96)01049-8     Document Type: Article

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