Effects of maturity on nutritive value of field-cured hays from common vetch and hairy vetch

Animal Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 31-42

  Ayed, Madiha Haj ^a,c   González, Javier ^a   Caballero, Rafael ^b   Alvir, María Remedios ^a  

^a Electrotechnical Section   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c Higher School of Agriculture of Mateur University of Carthage   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Common vetch hay; Digestibility; Hairy vetch hay; Maturity; Rumen degradability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042061208     PISSN: 16273583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/animres:2001103     Document Type: Article

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