Effects of continuous and periodic feeding by electronic feeders on accuracy of measuring feed intake information and their genetic association with growth performances

Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 403-416

  Schulze, V ^a   Roehe, R ^a   Looft, H ^b   Kalm, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b PIC Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

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EID: 0035624372     PISSN: 09312668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0388.2001.00158.x     Document Type: Article

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