Supplementing pig diet with 0.2% sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) wood extract had no effect on growth, carcass or meat quality

Acta Agriculturae Slovenica

Volumn 100, Issue SUPPL.3, 2012, Pages 83-88

  Prevolnik, Maja ^a   Škrlep, Martin ^b   Brus, Maksimiljan ^a   Pugliese, Carolina ^c   Čandek Potokar, Marjeta ^b   Škorjanc, Dejan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Animal nutrition; Carcass quality; Chestnut tannins; Growth; Meat quality; Pigs

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CASTANEA SATIVA; SUIDAE;

EID: 84866868056     PISSN: 15819175     EISSN: 18541941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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