Daily intake of lactating crossbred cows grazing elephant grass rotationally

Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 911-917

  Aroeira, Luiz Januário Magalhães ^a   Lopes, Fernando César Ferraz ^a   Soares, João Paulo Guimarães ^b   Deresz, Fermino ^a   Vemeque, Rui Da Silva ^a   Arcuri, Pedro Braga ^a   Lopes De Matos, Leovegildo ^a  

^a EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Digestibility; Dry matter content; Extrusion; Feed grasses; Pennisetum purpureum

Indexed keywords

BOS INDICUS; ELEPHANT; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM; PENNISETUM PURPUREUM; POACEAE; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR;

EID: 0035598013     PISSN: 0100204X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-204X2001000600009     Document Type: Article

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