Roughage for Diets Fed to Weaned Dairy Calves

Professional Animal Scientist

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 283-288

  Hill, T M ^a   Bateman, H G ^a   Aldrich, J M ^a   Schlotterbeck, R L ^a  

^a Akey   (United States)

Author keywords

Calf; Protein; Roughage

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958853673     PISSN: 10807446     EISSN: 1525318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15232/S1080-7446(15)30719-1     Document Type: Article

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