Non-experimental validation of ethnoveterinary plants and indigenous knowledge used for backyard pigs and chickens in Trinidad and Tobago

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 375-385

  Lans, C ^a   Georges, K ^b   Brown, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Backyard chickens; Backyard pigs; Ethnoveterinary medicine; Trinidad and Tobago

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; FEMALE; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; METHODOLOGY; PHYTOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; FEMALE; MALE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POULTRY DISEASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

ALOE; ALOE VERA; AVES; BAMBUSA; BAMBUSA VULGARIS; CARICA PAPAYA; CECROPIA; CECROPIA PELTATA; CHENOPODIUM AMBROSIOIDES; CITRUS; CITRUS AURANTIUM; CITRUS X LIMONIA; ERYTHRINA (BIRD); ERYTHRINA PALLIDA; EUPHRASIA; GALLUS GALLUS; GOSSYPIUM; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO MAJOR; SUIDAE;

EID: 34447638747     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-007-9026-0     Document Type: Article

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