Birth Weight of Lambs: Influences and Consequences

Size at Birth

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 215-246

  Alexander, G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1002/9780470720097.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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