Yak Milk

Handbook of Milk of Non-Bovine Mammals

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 345-353

  Silk, Todd M ^a   Guo, Mingruo ^a   Haenlein, George F W ^b   Park, Young W ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c FORT VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cows; Fat; Feeding; Herdswomen; Yak

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849201092     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470999738.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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