Digestibility of Fresh Frozen versus Pelleted Browse by Snowshoe Hares
- 1 July 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management
- Vol. 40 (3), 496-499
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3799953
Abstract
Twelve snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) were used to evaluate the effect of drying, grinding and pelleting on the digestibility of browse of white cedar (Thuja occidentalis) and red maple (Acer rubrum). A significant (P < 0.05) increase in consumption was observed for the pelleted feeds. No significant effects were observed in digestibility for the combined data, although apparent differences were seen when the 2 spp. were analyzed individually.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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