Dairy Sheep Nutrition.(ANIMAL CULTURE, AQUACULTURE)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: SciTech Book News | Date: June 1, 2005 | Copyright information

SF376

2004-006555

0-85199-681-7

Dairy sheep nutrition.

Title main entry. Ed. by G. Pulina. Ed. of English ed. R. Bencini.

CABI Publishing, [c]2004

222 p.

$120.00

Translated and slightly revised from the Italian language Alimentazione degli ovini da latte (2001), this text edited by Pulina (U. di Sassari, Italy) provides an overview of the nutritional aspects of raising sheep...

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