AbstractsBiology & Animal Science
The relative ability of sheep and rabbits to digest pasture herbage.
| Institution: | McGill University |
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| Department: | Department of Animal Nutrition and Breeding. |
| Degree: | MS. |
| Year: | 1940 |
| Keywords: | Animal Nutrition and Breeding. |
| Record ID: | 1542919 |
| Full text PDF: | http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile130014.pdf |
Abstract
A desire to reduce the amount of work and expense involved in pasture digestibility trials with ruminants has prompted the suggestion that rabbits might serve as useful pilot animals in such investigations. Brody and Procter, in a review article (1933), propose the rabbit "as an experimental animal for evaluating metabolizable and net energies of cattle feeds", although even at that time it was clear from the data of Forbes, Wiegner and Mitchell that rabbit and steer digestibilitiea did not coincide.
