Performance and carcass quality of broiler chickens fed a corn-soybean meal diet containing graded barley levels without or with enzyme

Journal of Poultry Science

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-40

  Farran, Mohamad T ^a   Barbour, George W ^b   Usayran, Nada N ^c   Darwish, Ali H ^b   Machlab, Hasan H ^b   Hruby, Milan ^d   Ashkarian, Vahe'M ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b LEBANESE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Lebanon)

^c LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^d Danisco Animal Nutrition   (United States)

Author keywords

Barley; Broiler; Carcass quality; Enzyme; Performance

Indexed keywords

GALLUS GALLUS; GLYCINE MAX; HORDEUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 76349116765     PISSN: 13467395     EISSN: 13490486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2141/jpsa.009003     Document Type: Article

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