Growth responses to dietary lysine at high and low ambient temperature in male turkeys

Poultry Science

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1733-1746

  Veldkamp, T ^a   Kwakkel, R ^a   Ferket, P ^b   Kogut, J ^a   Verstegen, M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient temperature; Carcass yield; Dietary lysine; Growth performance; Turkey

Indexed keywords

AVES; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO;

LYSINE;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; DIET; EATING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MEAT; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TEMPERATURE; TURKEY (BIRD); WEIGHT GAIN;

AGING; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; DIET; EATING; LYSINE; MALE; MEAT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; TEMPERATURE; TURKEYS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 1542497960     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/82.11.1733     Document Type: Article

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