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  • Horses, for example, as monogastrics cannot digest fibre-rich fodders as easily as ruminants and thus require energy-based high-value feedstuffs.

    1. Selection of animals 1991

  • Fish solubles are reported to improve growth in monogastrics but the specific mechanism does not appear to be known.

    Chapter 9 1988

  • However, these high tannin varieties are more deficient in the essential amino acid lysine than ordinary varieties which has consequences for humans and other monogastrics like pigs and chickens.

    Chapter 7 1981

  • Grass is more digestible but less suitable for monogastrics.

    Chapter 3 1979

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