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Physical Health Problems and Environmental Challenges Influence Balancing Behaviour in Laying Hens
With rising public concern for animal welfare, many major food chains and restaurants are changing their policies, strictly buying their eggs from non-cage producers. However, with the additional space in these cage-free systems to perform natural behaviours and movements comes the risk of injury. W...
Autores principales: | LeBlanc, Stephanie, Tobalske, Bret, Quinton, Margaret, Springthorpe, Dwight, Szkotnicki, Bill, Wuerbel, Hanno, Harlander-Matauschek, Alexandra |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4831827/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27078835 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153477 |
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