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The effects of pre-slaughter handling on reindeer meat quality - a review.
Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) are well adapted to a climate characterised by low temperatures and snow during a major part of the year. During...
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Magnesium supplementation and pork quality.
Magnesium (Mg) supplementation may improve pork quality through decreasing the acute stress response resulting from handling prior to slaughter, contr...
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Recombinant rumen bacteria: problems and opportunities.
Gene manipulation of rumen bacteria was initiated in the early 1980s with most of the effort primarily focused on developing plasmid vectors. From the...
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Chromium nutrition of livestock species.
Chromium has received much attention in nutrition research following the elucidation of its role in metabolism. The Cr content of foods and ability to...
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Creole pigs in Guadeloupe and Cuba: a comparison of reproduction, growth performance and meat qualit
Little information is available about the reproductive and growth performance of local pigs in the tropics. The present paper reviews studies on the C...
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Livestock and climate change, challenges and options.
This review outlines livestock's major emission pathways and production trends, and explores the challenges and options for livestock in addressing ...
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Use of fish meal and fish oil in aquaculture: a global perspective.
Although aquaculture's contribution towards total world fisheries landings has increased 6-fold over the past three decades, increasing from 3.58 mmt ...
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Risk assessment for plant-made pharmaceuticals.
Plant-made pharmaceuticals (PMPs) offer great promise as efficacious and cost-effective products for the treatment of human and animal disease. The be...
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Organic acids, prebiotics and protein level as dietary tools to control the weaning transition and r
The most effective way to control post-weaning diarrhoea (PWD) in piglets remains the use of prophylactic and for therapeutic levels of antibiotics. H...
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Non-chemical control methods for sheep with mixed, predominantly Teladorsagia circumcincta, nematode
Nematode infection is a potent threat to efficient and welfare-friendly livestock production. Anthelmintic treatment is a simple, cheap and effective ...
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