Lying behaviour (location, posture and duration)

On Farm Monitoring of Pig Welfare

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 19-23

  Geers, Rony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 51449109395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-591-8     Document Type: Chapter

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