Effect of Forage Feeding on Goat Meat Production: Carcass Characteristics and Composition of Creole Kids Reared Either at Pasture or Indoors in the Humid Tropics
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Alexandre, G.
(INRA, UR143, Unite de Recherches Zootechniq)
Limea, L. (INRA, UR143, Unite de Recherches Zootechniq) Fanchonne, A. (INRA, UR143, Unite de Recherches Zootechniq) Coppry, O. (INRA PTEA 1294 Domaine Expérimental de Gardel, Centre INRA-Antilles-Guyane) Mandonnet, N. (INRA, UR143, Unite de Recherches Zootechniq) Boval, M. (INRA, UR143, Unite de Recherches Zootechniq) |
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