Influence of Urea Alone or Combined with Fish Solubles, Fish Meal, or Feather Meal in Liquid Supplement with and Without L-Carnitine on Performance and Ruminal and Metabolic Parameters of Weanling Calves12 Approved by the director of Louisiana Agric. Exp. Stn. as publication no. 00-11-0001. Appreciation is extended to Omega Protein Inc. (Hammond, LA) for providing fish products and feather meal, to PM Ag Inc. (Houston, TX) for providing the urea-molasses mixture, and to Lonza, Inc. (Fairlawn, NJ) for providing L-carnitine and financial support.

Professional Animal Scientist

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 145-153

  White, T W ^a   Fernandez, J M ^a   Gentry, G T ^a   Gentry, L R ^a   DeRouen, P T ^a   Froetschel, M A ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calves; L Carnitine; Liquid Supplement; Undegradable Protein

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007621875     PISSN: 10807446     EISSN: 1525318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15232/S1080-7446(15)31615-6     Document Type: Article

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