Behavioural and clinical responses of turkeys stunned in a V-shaped, carbon dioxide tunnel

Animal Welfare

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 81-86

  Hänsch, Friederike ^a   Nowak, B ^b   Hartung, J ^a  

^a Department of Animal Sciences   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Behaviour; CO2 stunning; Reflexes; Slaughter; Turkeys

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BATH; BREATHING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ELECTRICITY; EYELID CLOSURE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; REFLEX; SITTING; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; TURKEY (BIRD); UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO;

EID: 59849101424     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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