The determination of beginning- and end-of-period live weights of growing pigs

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 82, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 1672-1675

  Patrick Schofield, C ^a   Whittemore, Colin T ^b   Green, Darren M ^b   Pascual, Mariam D ^b  

^a SILSOE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic weighing; Pig weight

Indexed keywords

GROWTH; PIG; WEIGHT;

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0036830281     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.1247     Document Type: Article

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