Growth performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality of group-penned surgically castrated, immunocastrated (Improvac) and entire male pigs and individually penned entire male pigs

Animal

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1057-1066

  Pauly, C ^a,b   Spring, P ^a   Odoherty, 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 and pork quality; Entire male pigs; Housing; Immunocastration; Performance

Indexed keywords

PIERIS BRASSICAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 68349147774     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731109004418     Document Type: Article

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