DRY MATTER AND NUTRIENT INTAKE AND DIET COMPOSITION IN Leucaena leucocephala – BASED INTENSIVE SILVOPASTORAL SYSTEMS

DRY MATTER AND NUTRIENT INTAKE AND DIET COMPOSITION IN Leucaena leucocephala – BASED INTENSIVE SILVOPASTORAL SYSTEMS

Knowledge of forage intake and grazing selectivity is vital to improve the use of feed resources by grazing animals. To estimate forage selectivity and intake by steers grazing in intensive silvopastoral systems (ISS) under tropical dry forest (bs-T) conditions. Intake was evaluated using the n-alka...

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Main Authors: Cesar Augusto Cuartas Cardona, Juan Fernando Naranjo Ramírez, Ariel Marcel Tarazona Morales, Guillermo Antonio Correa Londoño, Rolando Barahona Rosales
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán 2015-12-01
Series:Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems
Subjects:
beef cattle
legume
n-alkane
silvopastoral system
voluntary intake
Online Access:http://www.revista.ccba.uady.mx/ojs/index.php/TSA/article/view/2125

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