Fattening performance and carcass traits in crossbred ram lambs

Medycyna Weterynaryjna

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 401-404

  Ünal, Necmettin ^a   Akçapinar, Halil ^a   Aytaç, Melik ^b   Atasoy, Fatih ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Lalahan Livestock Central Research Institute   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Carcass traits; Crossbreeding; Fattening; Sheep

Indexed keywords

MEDICAGO SATIVA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33645968446     PISSN: 00258628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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