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Effects of hatching on-farm on performance and welfare of organic broilers

As an alternative to traditional hatching in the hatchery, fertilized incubated eggs can be placed in the rearing barn on embryonic d 18 for hatching to occur on-farm, omitting several hatchery procedures, and transport of day-old chicks. In addition, this practice further allows newly hatched chick...

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Autores principales: Jessen, Camilla T., Foldager, Leslie, Riber, Anja B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8322470/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34298386
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2021.101292