Whole wheat versus mixed layer diet as supplementary feed to layers foraging a sequence of different forage crops

Animal

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 575-585

  Horsted, K ^a   Hermansen, J E ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Crop content; Feed intake; Free range behaviour; Organic egg production

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLOVER; COCK (BIRD); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EGG; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORAGE CROP; GRASS; HEN; LUPIN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OAT; OYSTER; PEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUINOA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WHEAT;

ANIMALIA; CHENOPODIUM QUINOA; OSTREIDAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 34247563764     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S175173110769418X     Document Type: Article

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