Nutrition of draught oxen in semi-arid West Africa. 1. Energy expenditure by oxen working on soils of different consistencies
The Oxylog, a portable breath-by-breath gas analyser, was used on seven animals to determine standing metabolic rate, energy cost of walking on soils of different consistencies and efficiency of work ploughing and carting. The average standing metabolic rate of animals was 5.63 (s.e. 0.12) W/kg M 0....
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Cambridge University Press
1997
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/28317 |
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