Intake rate during meals and meal duration for sheep in different hunger states, grazing grass or white clover swards

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 33-45

  Orr, Robert J ^a   Penning, Peter D ^a   Rutter, S Mark ^a   Champion, Robert A ^a   Harvey, Anne ^a   Rook, Andrew J ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grass; Intake rate; Satiety; Sheep; White clover

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE; LOLIUM; LOLIUM PERENNE; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM REPENS;

EID: 0039189966     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(01)00176-9     Document Type: Article

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