Different approaches of estimating economical values for drip loss as lognormally distributed trait

Livestock Science

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 43-51

  Otto, G ^a   Knap, P W ^b   Roehe, R ^c   Looft, H ^b   Cavero, D ^a   Kalm, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b PIC Germany   (Germany)

^c SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drip loss; Economic value; Meat quality; Pigs

Indexed keywords

SUIDAE;

EID: 34848905379     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2007.01.155     Document Type: Article

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