Individual tracking of laying hens with an RFID-System

Landtechnik

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 301-307

  Gebhardt Henrich, Sabine G ^c   Fröhlich, Ernst K F ^c   Burose, Frank ^a   Fleurent, Jonathan ^c   Gantner, Michael ^b   Zähner, Michael ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^b Gantner Pigeon GmbH   (Austria)

^c Research station Agroscope ^*

Author keywords

Laying hen; Ranging behavior; RFID; Transponder; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 84917736130     PISSN: 00238082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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