Gas mixtures for anaesthesia and euthanasia in broiler chickens

World's Poultry Science Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 225-234

  Coenen, Anton ^a   Smit, Annika ^a   Zhonghua, Li ^b   Van Luijtelaar, Gilles ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Argon; Behaviour; Carbon dioxide; Chicken; Electrocardiogram; Electroencephalogram; Euthanasia; Oxygen; Poultry; Slaughtering; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034362360     PISSN: 00439339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/wps20000017     Document Type: Article

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