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The potential of urinary metabolites of plant compounds as indicators of botanical composition of the diet of goats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

B. L. Keir ,
R. W. Mayes  and
E. R. Ørskov
B. L. Keir
Affiliation:
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH UK
R. W. Mayes
Affiliation:
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH UK
E. R. Ørskov
Affiliation:
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH UK
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Knowledge of the nutrition of free-ranging herbivores and the impact on their environment is often limited by lack of information concerning the botanical composition of their diets. For herbivores grazing heterogeneous vegetation environments, current methods for estimating the botanical composition of their diets are limited in their scope and accuracy. The purpose of this study was to establish whether urinary metabolites, occurring as a result of ingestion of different individual plant species, have the potential to be used as markers to estimate diet composition.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2001 , 2001 , pp. 146
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2001

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