Reducing mob size increases the survival of twin-born Merino lambs when feed-on-offer from pasture is limited and ewes are supplementary fed during lambing-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Reducing mob size increases the survival of twin-born Merino lambs when feed-on-offer from pasture is limited and ewes are supplementary fed during lambing

Published:2019-04 Issue: Volume:173 Page:65-69
ISSN:0921-4488
Container-title:Small Ruminant Research
language:en
Short-container-title:Small Ruminant Research

Author:

Lockwood Amy^ORCID,Hancock Serina,Kearney Gavin,Thompson Andrew

Funder

Meat and Livestock Australia, Australia, Postgraduate Scholarship

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Subject

Animal Science and Zoology,Food Animals

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