Adaptations to standard approaches for measuring total tract apparent digestibility and gastro-intestinal retention time in horses in training

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Volumn 152, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 141-151

  Goachet, A G ^a   Philippeau, C ^a   Varloud, M ^b   Julliand, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b EVIALIS ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Collection period; Equine; Markers; Methodology; Total mean retention time; Total tract apparent digestibility

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE;

EID: 67349246241     PISSN: 03778401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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