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Stress during Commercial Hatchery Processing Induces Long-Time Negative Cognitive Judgement Bias in Chickens

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Worldwide, billions of laying hen chicks are incubated, hatched and processed in industrial hatcheries every year. When exposed to stress, hormones are incorporated in the feathers of the birds. Here, we measured levels of the stress hormone corticosterone to investigate possible str...

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Autores principales: Hedlund, Louise, Palazon, Tiphaine, Jensen, Per
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8068895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33920228
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11041083