Meat quality of cryptorchid lambs grazing either dryland or irrigated perennial pasture with some silage supplementation

Meat Science

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 267-275

  Hopkins, D L ^a   Beattie, A S ^b,c   Pirlot, K L ^b  

^a NSW AGRICULTURE   (Australia)

^b Dept of Prim Indust and F ^*  (Australia)

^c RCS   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DACTYLIS; DACTYLIS GLOMERATA; LOLIUM; LOLIUM PERENNE; OVIS ARIES; TRIFOLIUM REPENS;

EID: 0032219901     PISSN: 03091740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0309-1740(97)00140-X     Document Type: Article

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