Performance and behaviour of chickens with different growing rate reared according to the organic system

Italian Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 291-300

  Castellini, Cesare ^a   Dal Bosco, Alessandro ^a   Mugnai, Cecilia ^a   Bernardini, Marcella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Chickens; Organic system; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746612917     PISSN: 15944077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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