Food intake and digestive efficiency in temperate wool and tropic semi-arid hair lambs fed different concentrate: Forage ratio diets

Small Ruminant Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 107-115

  Silva, A M A ^a,b   Sobrinho, A G Silva ^a,b   Trindade, I A C M ^a,b   Resende, K T ^a,b   Bakke, O A ^a,b  

^a Campus VII UFPB   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Digestibility; Intake; Lamb; Neutral detergent fiber; Roughage fodder; Tifton

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CYNODON; LAMB; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 4344601385     PISSN: 09214488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smallrumres.2003.12.007     Document Type: Article

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