Energy Expenditure by Heifers Grazing Crested Wheatgrass of Diminishing Availability
- 1 July 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Range Management
- Vol. 35 (4) , 447-450
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3898602
Abstract
The daily mean energy expenditure of free-ranging heifers grazing crested wheatgrass rangeland was estimated as 161 kcal/kgBW [body weight]0.75 per day using the CO2 entry rate technique (CERT). This was 46% greater than the mean 110 kcal/kgBW0.75 per day estimated for stall-fed heifers consuming similar forage. Under laboratory conditions, CERT can provide a mean estimate of energy expenditure that has a SE of 5% and a coefficient of variation of 20%.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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