Nutritional uniformity of neutral detergent solubles in some tropical browse leaf and pod diets

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Volumn 82, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 63-73

  Shayo, C M ^a   Uden P ^b  

^a Ministry of Livestock Development Dar es Salaam   (Tanzania)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Digestibility; Lucas uniformity test; Neutral detergent solubles; Tropical browse

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344578039     PISSN: 03778401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8401(99)00098-X     Document Type: Article

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