The digestive utilization of the diet in calves experimentally infected with Ostertagia ostertagi.
The experimental infection of calves with 250,000 L larvae of Ostertagia ostertagi per animal did not produce great variations in the digestibility of the diet administered. The infection retarded normal growth the resulted in an unfavourable conversion index.
D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000469:parasitology; D004063:Digestion; D008297:Male; D010029:Ostertagiasis / Q000378:metabolism / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*; D014252:Trichostrongyloidiasis / Q000662:veterinary*