An analysis was made of the selective use of three fodder-groups (grass, woody species and acorns) by a herd of dairy goats grazed semiextensively in an area of the Sierra Norte in the province of Seville (Spain). The ...

The level of oestrogenic isoflavones (biochanin A, formononetin, genistein and pratensein) are determined on twenty species of the Trifolium genus. These samples have been taken from the natural pasture growing in the ...

Significative influences of several geotopographic characteristics are shown on a concentration of crude nutritive principles and mineral elements in C. ladanifer but a clear regulation of these observations is not discernible.

We have studied the individual differences in the selective behaviour of a herd of dairy goats. The results showed some animals to exhibit a manifest preference for ligneous species over the herbaceous stratum, which was ...

An experiment is carried out on the use of Cistus ladaniferus L. extracted with ,ethyl alcohol, in rabbit feed. 16 Californian breed rabbits are used. They are fed ad libitum for 30 days with a commercial feed in wich the ...