Effect of organic zinc sources on performance, zinc status and carcass, meat and claw quality in fattening bulls

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 81, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 161-171

  Kessler, J ^a   Morel, I ^a   Dufey, P A ^a   Gutzwiller, A ^a   Stern, A ^b   Geyer, H ^b  

^a Swiss Fed Res Stn for Anim Prod   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beef cattle; Carcass quality; Claw quality; Meat quality; Organic zinc; Performance

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037947669     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-6226(02)00262-2     Document Type: Article

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