Effect of feeding different physical forms of diets on performance and carcass traits of goats

Canadian Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 471-473

  Goonewardene, Laki A ^a   Suleiman, A ^a   Okine, E K ^b  

^a ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carcass; Feeds; Goats; Performance; Processing

Indexed keywords

CAPRA HIRCUS; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 0036761009     PISSN: 00083984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/A01-085     Document Type: Article

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