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Francisco Maroto-Molina1, Eseró Padrón-Tejera1, Dolores C Pérez-Marín1
1Department of Animal Production, School of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain.
Animal Frontiers : the Review Magazine of Animal Agriculture
|October 16, 2023
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