Analysis of Pig Growth from Birth to Sixty Days of Age

Professional Animal Scientist

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-86

  Schinckel, A P ^a   Ferrel, J ^b   Einstein, M E ^a   Pearce, S M ^c   Boyd, R D ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Primary Nutrition   (United States)

^c Box 248 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Birth Body Weight; Nonlinear Growth Functions; Pig Growth; Postweaning Growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008198157     PISSN: 10807446     EISSN: 1525318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15232/S1080-7446(15)31276-6     Document Type: Article

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