The Effects of Social Rank and Cage Shape on Selected Behavioral and Performance Traits of White Leghorn Layers
Open Access
- 1 December 1981
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Poultry Science
- Vol. 60 (12), 2593-2598
- https://doi.org/10.3382/ps.0602593
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