Factors that impede animal movement at slaughter plants

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 209, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 757-759

  Grandin, Temple ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CANADA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; ILLUMINATION; MEAT; MOTIVATION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NOISE; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; STANDARD; STRESS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ABATTOIRS; AIR MOVEMENTS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CANADA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FLOORS AND FLOORCOVERINGS; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); LIGHTING; MEAT; MOVEMENT; NOISE; STRESS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 0030586666     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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