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Reduction in Animal Waste

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The term “animal waste” is used for the dung or fecal material of livestock such as ruminants, poultry, swine, horse, birds, and other mammals with or without litter.

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    Ali Saeed, Ali H. Sayyed & Sohail Safdar

  2. National Veterinary Laboratory, Park Road, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Shumaila Manzoor

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Saeed, A., Sayyed, A.H., Safdar, S., Manzoor, S. (2015). Reduction in Animal Waste. In: Abubakar, M., Saeed, A., Kul, O. (eds) The Role of Biotechnology in Improvement of Livestock. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46789-3_6

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