Greenhouse gas emissions from three cage layer housing systems

Animals

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-15

  Fournel, Sébastien ^a,b   Pelletier, Frédéric ^b   Godbout, Stéphane ^b   Lagacé, Robert ^a   Feddes, John ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Research and Development Institute for the Agri Environment   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Belt; Deep pit; Emission; Greenhouse gas; Housing; Laying hen

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861343054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20762615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ani2010001     Document Type: Article

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