Preference testing in intensively kept meat production rabbits for straw on wire grid floor

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 71-80

  Morisse, J P ^a   Boilletot, E ^a   Martrenchar, A ^a  

^a Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

Author keywords

Housing system; Preference testing; Rabbit; Straw substrate; Wire floors

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; PROCESS MONITORING; RABBIT;

EID: 0032985590     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(99)00023-4     Document Type: Article

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