Changes in milk fatty acid profile and animal performance in response to fish oil supplementation, alone or in combination with sunflower oil, in dairy ewes

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1604-1615

  Toral, P G ^a   Frutos, P ^a   Hervas G ^a   Gomez Cortes P ^b   Juarez M ^b   de la Fuente, M A ^b  

^a Instituto de Ganadería de Montana   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DEL FRÍO CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conjugated linoleic acid; Milk fat depression; N 3; Sheep

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED LINOLEIC ACID; FATTY ACID; FISH OIL; SUNFLOWER OIL; TRANS FATTY ACID; VEGETABLE OIL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; ISOMERISM; LACTATION; METABOLISM; MILK; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; RANDOMIZATION; SHEEP; STANDARD;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; FISH OILS; ISOMERISM; LACTATION; LINOLEIC ACIDS, CONJUGATED; MILK; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PLANT OILS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SHEEP; TRANS FATTY ACIDS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVIDAE; HELIANTHUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77949998369     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2009-2530     Document Type: Article

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