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Visual access to an outdoor range early in life, but not environmental complexity, increases meat chicken ranging behavior

Not all chickens access an outdoor range when the opportunity is provided. This may be related to the abrupt change in environments from the stable rearing conditions to the complexity of the outdoor range. We aimed to prepare chickens to range by increasing the complexity of the indoor environment...

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Autores principales: Taylor, P.S., Fanning, L., Dawson, B., Schneider, D., Dekoning, C., McCarthy, C., Rault, J. -L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10563055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37812870
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2023.103079