New ways of measuring intake, efficiency and behaviour of grazing livestock

Animal Production Science

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1796-1804

  Greenwood, Paul L ^a,b   Valencia, Philip ^b   Overs, Leslie ^b   Paull, David R ^b   Purvis, Ian W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

alkanes; cattle; chromic oxide; goats; phenomics; sheep

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FOOD INTAKE; GOAT; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; PASTURE; PHENOTYPE; SHEEP; VIDEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84905705388     PISSN: 18360939     EISSN: 18365787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AN14409     Document Type: Article

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