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Skin Temperature and Fattening Capacity in Oxen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

T. B. Wood  and
A. V. Hill
T. B. Wood
Affiliation:
Drapers Professor of Agriculture
A. V. Hill
Affiliation:
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
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Extract

In the preceding paper, attention is drawn to the fact that wide differences occur between individual animals in their capacity for converting food into fat. It is shown, for instance, that an individual ox on a fattening diet may increase in live weight as much as 3 lb. a day or as little as 1 lb. a day. The former would give out 17,000 Cals., and the latter 22,000 Cals. per day, a difference in heat evolution of about 25 per cent.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , May 1914 , pp. 252 - 254
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1914

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