Assessing the reliability of plant-wax markers to delineate diet choice and feed efficiency in beef heifers
Estimating feed efficiency in grazing environments is challenging due to difficulties in quantifying food intakes and diet choices in free-grazing animals. The plant-wax marker technique may be a useful tool to redress this problem. However, its reliability needs to be validated before its wider app...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34299 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08012012-122210/ |