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Effects of housing system on the costs of commercial egg production

This article reports the first publicly available egg production costs compared across 3 hen-housing systems. We collected detailed data from 2 flock cycles from a commercial egg farm operating a conventional barn, an aviary, and an enriched colony system at the same location. The farm employed the...

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Autores principales: Matthews, W. A., Sumner, D. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Poultry Science Association, Inc. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4990890/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25480736
http://dx.doi.org/10.3382/ps/peu011