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Genetic properties of feed efficiency parameters in meat-type chickens

BACKGROUND: Feed cost constitutes about 70% of the cost of raising broilers, but the efficiency of feed utilization has not kept up the growth potential of today's broilers. Improvement in feed efficiency would reduce the amount of feed required for growth, the production cost and the amount of...

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Autores principales: Aggrey, Samuel E, Karnuah, Arthur B, Sebastian, Bram, Anthony, Nicholas B
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2901204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20584334
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-42-25