Responses to heat stress in commercial and local broiler stocks. 1. Performance traits

British Poultry Science

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 149-152

  Yalcin, S ^a   Ozkan S ^a   Turkmut L ^a   Siegel, P B ^b  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKEN; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HEAT INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; THERMOREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKENS; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; POULTRY DISEASES; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0035348979     PISSN: 00071668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00071660120048375     Document Type: Article

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