Meat quality of fully or partly outdoor reared pigs in organic production

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica - Section A: Animal Science

Volumn 55, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 106-112

  Oksbjerg, Niels ^a   Strudsholm, Karin ^a   Lindahl, Gunilla ^a   Hermansen, John E ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Compensatory growth; Fatty acid composition; Meat colour; Shear force; Tochopherols

Indexed keywords

SUS SCROFA; TRIFOLIUM;

EID: 28844487545     PISSN: 09064702     EISSN: 16511972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09064700510009324     Document Type: Article

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