Comparison of intake and digestibility of fresh Digitaria decumbens grass fed to sheep, indoors or at pasture, at two different stages of regrowth

Animal

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1108-1114

  Fanchone, A ^a   Archimede, H ^a   Delagarde, R ^b   Boval, M ^a  

^a Unite de Recherches Zootechniques Pointe a Pitre   (Guadeloupe)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

digestibility; grazing; in stall; ingestion; ram

Indexed keywords

PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; DIGITARIA; DRUG EFFECT; EATING; FECES; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHEEP; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; DIGESTION; DIGITARIA; EATING; FECES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLANT PREPARATIONS; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; DIGITARIA ERIANTHA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84861872911     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S175173111100259X     Document Type: Article

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