Physiology of colostrum production in sows;Physiologie de la production de colostrum chez la truie

Productions Animales

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-38

  Devillers, N ^a   Le Dividich, J ^b   Prunier, A ^b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

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