The effects of replacing Dichantium hay with banana (Musa paradisiaca) leaves and pseudo-stem on carcass traits of Ovin Martinik sheep

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1531-1538

  Marie Magdeleine, Carine ^a   Liméa, Léticia ^a   Etienne, Tatiana ^a   Lallo, Cicero H O ^b   Archimède, Harry ^a   Alexandre, Gisele ^a  

^a Unite de Recherches Zootechniques Pointe a Pitre   (Guadeloupe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Banana; Carcass; Growth; Hair sheep; Shoulder composition; Tropical forage

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BANANA; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MEAT; METHODOLOGY; SHEEP; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEAT; MUSA; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; DICHANTHIUM; MUSA X PARADISIACA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 70350259945     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-009-9344-5     Document Type: Article

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