Growth, body composition and carcass tissue distribution in goats of large and small sizes

Small Ruminant Research

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 267-278

  Mahgoub, O ^a   Lu, C D ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Body sizes; Carcass tissues; Composition; Goats; Growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041378256     PISSN: 09214488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0921-4488(97)00055-2     Document Type: Article

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