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Effects of age, weight, and housing system on prevalence of dead on arrival and carcass condemnation causes in laying hens

Causes of condemnation and dead on arrival (DoA) birds were studied at the slaughterhouse and effects of age, BW, and housing system were investigated. A total of 1,156 (0.18%) birds were found DoA and 20,754 carcasses out of 629,331 (3.30%) were condemned during postmortem inspection. The main reas...

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Autores principales: Saraiva, S., Saraiva, C., Oliveira, I., Stilwell, G., Esteves, A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7936178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33518312
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2020.12.012