Lack of Maternal Influence on Lamb Consumption of Locoweed (Oxytropis sericea)

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 340-344

  Pfister, James A ^a   Price, Kermit W ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Food Acceptability; Food Preferences; Learning; Locoweed; Poisonous Plants; Sheep

Indexed keywords

PLANT TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZATION; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PLANT POISONING; PLANTS, TOXIC; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

EID: 0030076052     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/1996.742340x     Document Type: Article

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