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Beef Science

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia

1970

Urea

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Feeding Urea To Cattle, D J. Barker Jan 1970

Feeding Urea To Cattle, D J. Barker

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

RUMINANTS normally obtain the protein they require by digestion of the organisms that inhabit the forestomach (rumen), not by direct digestion of the dietary protein they chew up and swallow.

The organisms break down the dietary protein and then rebuild proteins in the form of more organisms.

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