Organic acids in diets for entire male pigs

Livestock Science

Volumn 109, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 170-173

  Overland M ^a,b   Kjos, N P ^b   Borg, M ^b   Sorum H ^b  

^a Aquaculture Protein Centre   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Entire male pigs; Microbiota; Organic acids; Skatole

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 34247604097     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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