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Indicators of Stress in Poultry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

J. A. Hill
J. A. Hill
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Ministry of Agriculture, Gleadthorpe Experimental Farm, Meden Vale, Mansfield, Notts.
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , February 1983 , pp. 24 - 31
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