What will our ruminants drink?

Animal Frontiers

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 36-43

  Beede, David K ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Ruminant; Water nutrition; Water quality; Water requirement

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019155124     PISSN: 21606056     EISSN: 21606064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/af.2012-0040     Document Type: Article

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