Effects of dietary crude protein content and food intake on the production of semen in two lines of broiler breeder males

British Poultry Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 199-202

  Hocking, P M ^a   Bernard, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKEN; CYTOLOGY; EATING; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN INTAKE; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TESTIS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKENS; DIETARY PROTEINS; EATING; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 0031132775     PISSN: 00071668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00071669708417969     Document Type: Article

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