Effect of dietary forage:concentrate ratio on growth performance and carcass characteristics of growing Baladi kids

Small Ruminant Research

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 43-49

  Haddad, S G ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Baladi kids; Carcass characteristics; Forage:concentrate ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 11844253280     PISSN: 09214488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smallrumres.2004.05.001     Document Type: Article

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