Intercropped oats (Avena sativa) - Common vetch (Vicia sativa) silage in the dry season for small-scale dairy systems in the Highlands of Central Mexico

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 827-834

  Garduno Castro Y ^a   Espinoza Ortega, A ^a   Gonzalez Esquivel C E ^a   Mateo Salazar, B ^a   Arriaga Jordan C M ^b  

^a Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Agropecuarias CICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Dry season feeding; Grazing; Highlands; Maize silage; Mexico; Oats vetch silage; Small scale dairy systems

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BEAN; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAIRYING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; MILK; OAT; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SECRETION; SILAGE;

ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; AVENA SATIVA; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; MEXICO; MILK; SEASONS; SILAGE; VICIA; ZEA MAYS;

AVENA; AVENA SATIVA; LOLIUM PERENNE; TRIFOLIUM REPENS; VICIA; VICIA SATIVA; VICIA SATIVA SUBSP. NIGRA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 67349212608     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-008-9258-7     Document Type: Article

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