Pig meat quality from entire males

Animal

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1497-1507

  Lundstorm K ^a   Matthews, K R ^b   Haugen, J E ^c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE DEVELOPMENT BOARD   (United Kingdom)

^c NOFIMA   (Norway)

Author keywords

Castration; Detection methods; Entire males; Pig meat quality; Review

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 70449427613     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731109990693     Document Type: Article

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