Performance of broilers and the hydrogen ion concentration in their digestive tract following feeding of diets with different buffering capacities

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Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 236-240

  Florou Paneri, P ^a   Christaki, E ^a   Botsoglou, N A ^a   Kalousis, A ^b   Spais, A B ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Animal Feed Company   (Greece)

Author keywords

Broiler; Buffering capacity; Nutrition; Organic acid; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039303420     PISSN: 00039098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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