Effect of nutrition from mid-pregnancy to parturition on the live weight of twin-bearing hoggets and the live weight and survival of their lambs

New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 385-392

  Mulvaney, F J ^a   Morris, S T ^b   Kenyon, P R ^b   Morel, P C H ^b   West, D M ^b  

^a NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Adolescent ewe; Ewe lamb; Lamb survival; Lamb weaning weight; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLUCOSE; METABOLISM; NUTRITION; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SURVIVAL; WEIGHT;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84876347040     PISSN: 00288233     EISSN: 11758775     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288233.2012.728531     Document Type: Article

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