Adaptive changes in microbial synthesis and nitrogen balance with progressing dietary feeding periods in sheep fed diets differing in their ruminal degradation synchronicity between nitrogen and organic matter

Animal Science Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 322-331

  Ichinohe, Toshiyoshi ^a   Fujihara, Tsutomu ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Degradation synchronicity; Feeding period; Microbial supply; Nitrogen balance; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 43449131872     PISSN: 13443941     EISSN: 17400929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-0929.2008.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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