Assessment of pre-laying motivation in the domestic hen using social interaction

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 313-319

  Freire, Rafael ^a,c   Appleby, Michael C ^a   Hughes, Barry O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARENA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0031213694     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0463     Document Type: Article

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