Is supplementation justified to compensate pastoral calves for milk restriction?
Competition for milk between calves and pastoral herders may reduce weaning weights, retard growth, and delay puberty in cattle. Calf supplementation could over-ride such effects and improve pastoral economies. To examine these issues in semiarid Ethiopia, 266 Boran calves (Bos indicus) were used in...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
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1999
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/29102 |
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