Growth performance by Alpine, Angora, Boer and Spanish wether goats consuming 50 or 75% concentrate diets

Small Ruminant Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 149-158

  Urge, M ^a,b   Merkel, R C ^b   Sahlu, T ^b   Animut, G ^a   Goetsch, A L ^b  

^a HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b LANGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dietary concentrate level; Goat; Growth performance

Indexed keywords

CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 3042776553     PISSN: 09214488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smallrumres.2004.02.004     Document Type: Article

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