Effects of dietary allicin on health and growth performance of weanling piglets and reduction in attractiveness of faeces to flies

Animal

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 304-311

  Huang, R H ^a   Qiu, X S ^a   Shi, F X ^a   Hughes, C L ^b   Lu, Z F ^c   Zhu, W Y ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IQVIA   (United States)

^c Yixing Changxing Ecological Agricultural Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

diarrhoea ratio; dietary allicin; faecal hygiene; growth performance; weanling piglets

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952818786     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731110001953     Document Type: Article

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