Feeding behaviour in pigs

Feeding in Domestic Vertebrates

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 156-178

  Nielsen, B L ^a   Thodberg, K ^a   Dybkjaer L ^a   Vestergaard, E M ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

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