Diet selection and live-weight changes of two breeds of goats grazing on heathlands

Animal

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 449-457

  Osoro, K ^a   Garcia U ^a   Jauregui B M ^a   Ferreira, L M M ^b   Rook, A J ^c   Celaya, R ^a  

^a Área de Cultivos Hortofrutícolas y Forestales   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food preferences; Heather; Marginal land; Performance; Stocking rate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GOAT; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEGETATION;

ANIMALIA; CALLUNA; CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 34247607609     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731107683797     Document Type: Article

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