Effects of feed form and feed particle size on growth performance, carcass characteristics and digestive tract development of broilers

Animal Nutrition

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 252-256

  Lv, Mingbin ^a   Yan, Lei ^a   Wang, Zhengguo ^a   An, Sha ^a   Wu, Miaomiao ^a   Lv, Zunzhou ^a  

^a Shandong Liuhe Group Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Broilers; Feed form; Growth performance; Particle size

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994784903     PISSN: 24056545     EISSN: 24056383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aninu.2015.06.001     Document Type: Article

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