Ingestive behavior of sheep fed a hay-based diet over a six-month period;Comportamento ingestivo de ovinos recebendo dicta à base de feno durante um período de seis meses

Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1032-1038

  Fischer, Vivian ^a   Deswysen, Armand Gerard ^b   Dèspres, Lionel ^b   Dutilleul, Pierre ^c   Lobato, José Fernando Piva ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ingestive behavior; Intake; Photoperiod; Sheep

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0042560471     PISSN: 01004859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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