The effect of dietary carob pods on nutrient digestibility in weaning, growing and fattening periods of pigs

Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4 PART 2, 2010, Pages 779-782

  Kotrotsios, Nikolaos V ^a   Christaki, Efterpi V ^b   Bonos, Eleftherios M ^b   Florou Paneri, Panagiota C ^b  

^a Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ^*  (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Apparent digestibility; Ash; Carob pods; Crude fibre; Crude protein; Dry matter; Ether extract; Pig; Tannins

Indexed keywords

ALGAROBA; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; TANNIN; CYANIDE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; DIETARY INTAKE; DIGESTION; EXPERIMENTATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SWINE; WEANING; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL FOOD; ASH; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBER; GREECE; GROWTH; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; POD;

ANIMALIA; CERATONIA SILIQUA; SUIDAE;

EID: 78751658454     PISSN: 14590255     EISSN: 14590263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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