Adoption of immobility by shackled broiler chickens: Effects of light intensity and diverse hooding devices

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 327-335

  Jones, R Bryan ^a   Hagedorn, Teresa K ^b   Satterlee, Daniel G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicken welfare; Hoods; Light intensity; Patterned vision; Struggling; Tactile contact; Visual input

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031938418     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(97)00048-8     Document Type: Article

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