The effect of dietary garlic supplementation on body weight gain, feed intake, feed conversion efficiency, faecal score, faecal coliform count and feeding cost in crossbred dairy calves

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 961-968

  Ghosh, Sudipta ^a   Mehla, Ram K ^b   Sirohi, S K ^b   Roy, Biswajit ^a  

^a Department of Livestock Production and Management   (India)

^b NATIONAL DAIRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Body weight gain; Calf; Faecal coliform count; Faecal score; Garlic extract; Pre ruminant

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRYING; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES; GARLIC; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES; GARLIC; WEIGHT GAIN;

ALLIUM SATIVUM; ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE;

EID: 77952889596     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-009-9514-5     Document Type: Article

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