Nutritional Evaluation of Three Local Barley Varieties and the Impact of Dietary Apparent on their Apparent Metabolizable Energy

Journal of Poultry Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 228-234

  Barbour, George W ^a   Darwish, Ali H ^a   Machlab, Hasan H ^a   Farran, Mohamad T ^b   Uwayjan, Michel G ^b   Ashkarian, Vahé M ^b   Usayran, Nada N ^c   Hruby, Milan ^d  

^a LEBANESE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Lebanon)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^c LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^d Faculty of Agricultural Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

barley variety; enzyme; metabolizable energy; true amino acid availability

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349095507     PISSN: 13467395     EISSN: 13490486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2141/jpsa.43.228     Document Type: Article

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