Nutrient utilization and growth performance of defaunated and faunated lambs maintained on complete diets containing varying proportion of roughage and concentrate

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Volumn 101, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 87-99

  Santra, A ^a   Karim, S A ^a  

^a CENTRAL SHEEP AND WOOL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Ciliate protozoa; Concentrate ratio; Defaunation; Growth Roughage; Lambs; Nutrient utilization; Plane of nutrition

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; LAMB; OVIS ARIES; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037174709     PISSN: 03778401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8401(02)00146-3     Document Type: Article

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