Daytime behavioural patterns of slow-growing chickens in deep-litter pens with perches

British Poultry Science

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 113-120

  Lee, Y P ^a   Chen, T L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROOMING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TAIWAN;

AGE FACTORS; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHICKENS; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROOMING; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TAIWAN;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 34247484011     PISSN: 00071668     EISSN: 14661799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00071660701261302     Document Type: Article

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