Effects of different sources of dietary fibre on growth performance and apparent digestibility in geese

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 93-102

  Hsu, Jenn Chung ^a   Lu, Ta Wei ^b   Chiou, Peter W S ^a   Yu, Bi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Colostomy; Digestibility fibre; Fibre; Goose

Indexed keywords

ANSER; ANSER SP.; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; MEDICAGO SATIVA; ROMAN;

EID: 0038248170     PISSN: 03778401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0377-8401(95)00918-3     Document Type: Article

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