The effect of age on the carcass composition, portion yield and proximate composition of two rabbit genetic types in South Africa
Submitted: 2016-07-21
|Accepted: 2017-03-08
|Published: 2017-09-28
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Keywords:
rabbit, carcass, meat, Californian, New Zealand
Supporting agencies:
South African Research Chairs Initiative of the Department of Science and Technology
National Research Foundation of South Africa
Ms Gail Jordaan
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