Feather eating and its associations with plumage damage and feathers on the floor in commercial farms of laying hens

Feather eating has been associated with feather pecking, which continues to pose economic and welfare problems in egg production. Knowledge on feather eating is limited and studies of feather eating in commercial flocks of laying hens have not been performed previously. Therefore, the main objective...

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出版年:Animal
主要な著者: A.B. Riber, L.K. Hinrichsen
フォーマット: 論文
言語:英語
出版事項: Elsevier 2016-01-01
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オンライン・アクセス:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731116000057