Conditioned feeding responses of sheep towards flavoured foods associated with the administration of ruminally degradable and/or undegradable protein sources

Animal Science

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 597-606

  Arsenos, G ^a   Kyriazakis, I ^a   Tolkamp, B J ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Food preferences; Rumen degradable protein; Sheep; Undegradable protein

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034361638     PISSN: 13577298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1357729800055429     Document Type: Article

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