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Protein nutrition of livestock grazing high quality pasture
(Lincoln University, 2010)
This thesis describes a series of four experiments designed to evaluate the role of the supply of protein in livestock grazing high quality pasture during mating and during pregnancy. The first two studies investigated the ...
Effects of nutritionally-mediated increases in the plasma ammonia concentrations of donor ewes on the in vivo and subsequent in vitro development and metabolism of their embryos
(University of Aberdeen, 1994)
A review of the literature indicated that high levels of protein in ruminant diets can lower fertility. Ammonia from proteins that are rapidly degraded by the rumen microbes has been suggested as the factor that may affect ...