Struggling responses of broiler chickens shackled in groups on a moving line: Effects of light intensity, hoods, and 'curtains'

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 58, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 341-352

  Jones, R Bryan ^a   Satterlee, Daniel G ^b   Cadd, Gary G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicken slaughtering; Curtains; Hoods; Light Intensity; Processing line; Shackles; Straggling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031820903     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(98)00091-4     Document Type: Article

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