Nutritional Value Determination of Five Plants Species in Darab Rangeland Using Gas Production Technique

Subject Areas : Analysis and Evaluation

Ebrahim Talebi ¹ ( Department of Animal Sciences, Darab Branch, Islamic Azad University, Darab, Fars, Iran )
Mostafa Yousef-Elahi ² ( Department of Animal sciences, Zabol University )
Mohammad Reza Dehghani ³ ( Department of Animal sciences, Zabol University )
Asghar Salmani ⁴ ( Department of Animal sciences, Zabol University )

Received: 2021-02-10 Accepted : 2021-07-02 Published : 2022-04-01

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