Does shifting from a commercial to a natural diet affect the nutritional status of hand-reared grey partridges Perdix perdix?

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 147-156

  Liukkonen Anttila, Tuija ^a   Putaala, Ahti ^a   Hissa, Raimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Blood metabolites; Body mass; Diet quality; Grey partridge; Metabolised energy coefficient; Perdix perdix

Indexed keywords

AVES; PERDIX PERDIX; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032836596     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/wlb.1999.019     Document Type: Article

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