Use of cow faeces at different times after being voided as a source of micro-organisms in in vitro digestibility assays of forages

Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 371-374

  Akhter, S ^a,b   Owen, E ^a   Hossain, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGLADESH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Cow Faeces; In Vitro Digestibility; Using Time

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0030494307     PISSN: 10112367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5713/ajas.1996.371     Document Type: Article

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