Effects of a strategic feed restriction on pig performance and health during the post-weaning period

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica A: Animal Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 219-226

  Rantzer, Dan ^a   Svendsen, Jørgen ^a   Weström, Björn ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Corisol; Diarrhoea; E. coli; Growth; Trypsin

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0039054529     PISSN: 09064702     EISSN: 16511972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09064709609415874     Document Type: Article

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