The determination of incubation time and amount of faecal content of horse faeces as an inoculum source for digestibility determination of forages with in vitro procedure

Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 698-702

  Denek, N ^a   Polat, E ^a   Koncagul, S ^a   Can, A ^a  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Faeces; Horse; In vitro digestibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 53949085777     PISSN: 16805593     EISSN: 1993601X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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