A compact machine for feeding sheep up to twelve times daily
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- 1 March 1974
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in British Journal of Nutrition
- Vol. 31 (2) , 271-274
- https://doi.org/10.1079/bjn19740032
Abstract
1. A machine is described which is small enough to fit into a respiration calorimeter and which enables sheep to be fed automatically up to twelve times daily.Keywords
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