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Direct surface wetting sprinkler system to reduce the use of evaporative cooling pads in meat chicken production: indoor thermal environment, water usage, litter moisture content, live market weights, and mortalities

An overhead sprinkler system that directly applies water onto meat chickens in tunnel ventilated houses was evaluated and compared with a conventional evaporative cooling pad system at 2 commercial farms in south-eastern Queensland, Australia. The sprinkler system was used to reduce the use of evapo...

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Autores principales: Dunlop, Mark W., McAuley, Jim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8044692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33799118
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2021.101078