Influence of rumen protein degradability on productive and reproductive performance in buffalo cows

Reproduction Nutrition Development

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 557-566

  Campanile, Giuseppe ^a   Di Palo, Rossella ^a   Infascelli, Federico ^a   Gasparrini, Bianca ^a   Neglia, Gianluca ^a   Zicarelli, Fabio ^a   D'Occhio, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blood; Buffalo cow; Milk; Protein digestibility in the rumen; Vaginal mucus

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; MILK PROTEIN; POTASSIUM; UREA;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BUFFALO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; LACTATION; MILK PRODUCTION; MILK YIELD; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY RATE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN INTAKE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RUMINANT STOMACH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; VAGINA MUCOSA;

AMMONIA; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; BUFFALOES; DIETARY PROTEINS; DIGESTION; FEMALE; LACTATION; MILK; MUCUS; POTASSIUM; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCTION; RUMEN; UREA; VAGINA;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; BUBALUS;

EID: 1842829879     PISSN: 09265287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/rnd:2004008     Document Type: Article

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