Effects of Dietary Threonine in Starting, Growing, and Finishing Turkey Toms

Poultry Science

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 696-702

  Lehmann, Dirk ^a   Pack, Michael ^b,c   Jeroch, Heinz ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b EVONIK INDUSTRIES AG   (Germany)

^c Finnfeeds International Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast meat; Growth; Requirement; Threonine; Turkey

Indexed keywords

AVES; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO;

THREONINE;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; DIET; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MEAT; PHYSIOLOGY; STANDARD; TURKEY (BIRD);

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; DIET; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; MEAT; THREONINE; TURKEYS;

EID: 0031132189     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/76.5.696     Document Type: Article

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