Growth performance, meat quality and caecal coliform bacteria count of broiler chicks fed diet with green tea extract

Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1128-1135

  Erener, Guray ^a   Ocak, Nuh ^a   Altop, Aydin ^a   Cankaya, Soner ^a   Aksoy, Hasan Murat ^a   Ozturk, Ergin ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Breast muscle color; Broiler; Coliform bacteria; Green tea; Performance

Indexed keywords

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79960220603     PISSN: 10112367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5713/ajas.2011.10434     Document Type: Article

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