Feed intake

Dairy Goats, Feeding and Nutrition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 147-160

  Avondo, Marcella ^a   Biondi, Luisa ^a   Pagano, Renato Italo ^a   Bonanno, Adriana ^b   Lutri, Lucio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c Istituto Sperimentale Zootecnico per la Sicilia   (Italy)

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