Consumer attitudes to injurious pecking in free-range egg production
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Severe feather-pecking in free-range ISA Brown laying hens
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عنوان ژورنال: Animal Welfare
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0962-7286
DOI: 10.7120/09627286.25.1.091