Motivational aspects of individual variation in response to nestboxes by laying hens

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1245-1253

  Cooper, Jonathan J ^a,b   Appleby, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMESTIC HEN; LAYING BEHAVIOUR; NESTBOX;

GALLUS GALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS DOMESTICUS;

EID: 0030725070     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0521     Document Type: Article

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