Performances, meat quality and boar taint of castrates and entire male pigs fed a standard and a raw potato starch-enriched diet

Animal

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1707-1715

  Pauly, C ^a,b   Spring, P ^a   O'Doherty, J V ^b   Ampuero Kragten, S ^c   Bee, G ^c  

^a Swiss College of Agriculture   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c AGROSCOPE LIEBEFELD POSIEUX RESEARCH STATION ALP   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carcass characteristics; Entire male pig; Growth performance; Raw potato starch; Skatole

Indexed keywords

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SUIDAE;

EID: 54349091373     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731108002826     Document Type: Article

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