Can 'environmental enrichment' affect domestic chickens' preferences for one half of an otherwise symmetrical home cage?

Animal Welfare

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-164

  Jones, R B ^a   Carmichael, N L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Cage side preferences; Domestic chicks; Environmental enrichment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008253248     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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