Metabolic effects of diethylstilbestrol on growing sheep
The feeding of 2.5 mgm. of diethylstilbestrol (DES) per head per day to growing wethers fed a dehydrated grass meal ration increased dry matter intake by 6 per cent and decreased dry matter digestibility by 2.4 per cent. The DES-treated lambs digested 5.4 cent (P<.05) more crude protein, 9.2 per...
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University of British Columbia
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37341 |