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Outdoor Finishing of Intact Male Portuguese Alentejano Pigs on a Sustainable High-Fiber Diet: Impacts on Blood, Growth, Carcass, Meat Quality and Boar Taint Compounds

SIMPLE SUMMARY: EU consumers are increasingly concerned about the practice of surgical castration of male piglets. An alternative approach that is more welfare-friendly is to raise intact pigs, but it is important to limit boar taint in the meat and fat of these animals, which produces an off-odor a...

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Autores principales: Martins, José Manuel, Varino, Ricardo, Charneca, Rui, Albuquerque, André, Garrido, Nicolás, Neves, José, Freitas, Amadeu, Costa, Filipa, Marmelo, Carla, Ramos, Amélia, Martin, Luísa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10339927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37444019
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13132221