The mineral consumption and weight gain of grazing steers fed mineral supplements with different sodium contents and physical forms Consumo mineral e ganho de peso de garrotes mantidos em pastoreio recebendo suplementos minerais com diferentes teores de sódio e formas de apresentação
Thirty crossbred two-year-old steers, kept on pasture of Braquiaria decumbens, were used in two different experiments of 90 days each. In the first experiment, the steers were randomly assigned in five groups of six steers each to verify the influence of different percentages of sodium chloride (SC)...
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Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
1999-12-01
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| Series: | Ciência Rural |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84781999000400023 |