Behavioural responses during exposure of broiler chickens to different gas mixtures

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 62, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 255-265

  Lambooij, E ^a   Gerritzen, M A ^a   Engel, B ^a   Hillebrand, S J W ^a   Lankhaar, J ^b   Pieterse, C ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Stork PMT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chicken slaughtering; Gas mixture; Stunning; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033557327     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(98)00214-7     Document Type: Article

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