Effect of previous nutrition on body composition and maintenance energy costs of growing lambs
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- 1 November 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in British Journal of Nutrition
- Vol. 56 (3) , 595-605
- https://doi.org/10.1079/bjn19860140
Abstract
1. Forty-eight intact male lambs (30 kg) were fed to gain 16 (H), 5 (M) or 6 (HL, ML) kg and lambs from the L group were fed to gain 27 (LS), 16 (LH) or 5 (LM) kg during the ensuing 42 d (period 2).Keywords
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