Roughage Source and Level in Beef Cattle Finishing Diets1

Professional Animal Scientist

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 192-198

  Guthrie, M J ^a,b   Galyean, M L ^a,c   Malcolm Callis, K J ^a   Duff, G C ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WEST TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beef Cattle; Feed Intake; Grain Processing; Roughage

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645256850     PISSN: 10807446     EISSN: 1525318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15232/S1080-7446(15)32517-1     Document Type: Article

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