Factors affecting birth weight in sheep: Maternal environment

Reproduction

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 297-307

  Gardner, David S ^a   Buttery, P J ^a   Daniel, Z ^a   Symonds, M E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY COMPOSITION; BREEDING; CALORIC INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EWE; FEMALE; GENDER; GESTATIONAL AGE; INFERTILITY; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL WELFARE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; ENERGY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; INFERTILITY; LITTER SIZE; MATERNAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33847361828     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-06-0042     Document Type: Article

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