The effect of forage legume supplementation on digestibility and body weight gain by sheep fed a basal diet of maize stover
Growth and digestibility experiments were conducted with Ethiopian highland sheep offered a maize stover basal diet and supplemented with one of the three legume hays (Desmodium intortum, Macrotyloma axillare and Stylosanthes guianensis), legume hay plus cottonseed cake, and cottonseed cake alone, t...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Elsevier
1994
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/28185 |
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