Performance of Pigs on Diets Containing Detoxified Sheanut Cake

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-53

  Rhule, S W A ^a  

^a Animal Research Institute Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Boiling; Food conversion; Growth; Heat; Pigs; Sheanut cake; Toxin

Indexed keywords

PIERIS BRASSICAE; SUS SCROFA;

THEOBROMINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GHANA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; MALE; METABOLISM; NUT; RANDOMIZATION; STANDARD; SWINE; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GHANA; HEAT; MALE; NUTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SWINE; THEOBROMINE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0033071896     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005181401254     Document Type: Article

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