Animal welfare: impacts of pre-slaughter operations on the current poultry industry
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2318-1265,2318-1265
DOI: 10.31893/jabb.20014