Roughage as additional rooting substrates for pigs

Animal Science

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 451-456

  Olsen, A W ^a   Vestergaard, E M ^a   Dybkjaer L ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Pigs; Rooting substrate; Roughage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034195649     PISSN: 13577298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1357729800051808     Document Type: Article

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