Feather eating and crop filling in laying hens

Archiv fur Geflugelkunde

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 241-244

  Harlander Matauschek, Alexandra ^a,b   Bessei, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b Department of Farm Animal Ethology and Poultry Science ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Crop size; Feather eating; Feather pecking; Laying hens

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 30144445297     PISSN: 00039098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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