The behaviour of laying hens in aviary systems (a literature review);Das Verhalten von Legehennen in Volieren (eine Literaturübersicht)

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Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 176-180

  Bessei, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

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