Analysis of severe feather pecking behavior in a high feather pecking selection line

Poultry Science

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2052-2062

  Labouriau, R ^a   Kjaer, J B ^b   Abreu, G C G ^a   Hedegaard, J ^a   Buitenhuis, A J ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inheritance pattern; Modeling; Selection; Severe feather pecking

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 69049106777     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3382/ps.2009-00113     Document Type: Article

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