Seasonal changes in tissue weights in Scottish Blackface ewes over multiple production cycles

Animal Science

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 373-385

  Lambe, N R ^a   Simm, G ^a   Young, M J ^b   Conington, J ^a   Brotherstone, S ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Body composition; Computed tomography; Ewes

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 11844256377     PISSN: 13577298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S135772980009024X     Document Type: Article

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