Feed intake, digestibility, rumen fermentation and growth performance of camels fed diets supplemented with a yeast culture or zinc bacitracin

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Volumn 149, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 341-345

  Mohamed, M I ^a   Maareck, Y A ^a   Abdel Magid, Soha S ^a   Awadalla, I M ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Digestibility; Growth; Maghraby camels; Rumen fermentation; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Yeast culture; Zinc bacitracin

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; CAMELIDAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 60849095779     PISSN: 03778401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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