Weight gain and body conformational changes in weaner lambs fed high concentrate diets containing graded levels of sodium bicarbonate

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 668-673

  Chaturvedi, O H ^a   Santra, A ^a   Tripathi, M K ^a   Jayashankar, J ^a   Karim, S A ^a  

^a CENTRAL SHEEP AND WOOL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Body conformations; Body weight; Concentrate feeding; Lamb; Sodium bicarbonate

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; CELLULOSE;

ABDOMEN; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; EXPERIMENT; FEEDING; LAMB; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

LAMB; OVIS ARIES; ZIZIPHUS;

EID: 0041382799     PISSN: 03678318     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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