Effect of feeding barley based diets on animal performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality of crossbred beef cattle with and without Wagyu genetics

Canadian Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 655-662

  Mir, P S ^a   Bailey, D R C ^a   Mir, Z ^a   Jones, S D M ^a   Entz, T ^a   Husar, S D ^a   Shannon, N H ^a   Robertson, W M ^b  

^a LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b LACOMBE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Average daily gain; Carcass characteristics; European and British crossbred; Feed to gain ratio; Meat quality; Wagyu crossbred cattle

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 0031330267     PISSN: 00083984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/A97-029     Document Type: Article

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