Developing a welfare assessment system for use in commercial organic egg production

Animal Welfare

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 649-653

  Hegelund, Lene ^a   Sorensen J T ^a   Johansen, N F ^b  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b The National Dept of Poultry Prod   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Decision support; On farm studies; Organic poultry production

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DISEASE CONTROL; FARMING SYSTEM; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; MONITORING; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC FARMING; POULTRY FARMING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0242692382     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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