Consumers' preferences toward techniques for improving manual catching of poultry

Poultry Science

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2019-2027

  Delezie, E ^a   Verbeke, W ^b   De Tavernier, J ^a   Decuypere, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Catching poultry; Consumer; Perception; Survey

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33750091914     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/85.11.2019     Document Type: Article

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