Making broilers walk: What for and how;Faire marcher le poulet: Pourquoi et comment

Productions Animales

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-57

  Bizeray, D ^a   Faure, J M ^b   Leterrier, C ^b  

^a Inst Sup Agricole de Beauvais   (France)

^b STATION DE RECHERCHES AVICOLES   (France)

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