Effects of feeding supplemental fat to cows in late gestation on cold tolerance in newborn calves

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of added fat in late gestation cow and heifer diets on thermogenic and neonatal metabolic responses. In Experiment 1, the effects of source of fat in late gestation diets on serum glucose and thermogenic response during short-term cold stres...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dietz, Richard E.
Other Authors: Animal and Poultry Sciences
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34572
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08162000-13470040/