Cool perches improve the growth performance and welfare status of broiler chickens reared at different stocking densities and high temperatures
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- 1 August 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Poultry Science
- Vol. 92 (8), 1962-1971
- https://doi.org/10.3382/ps.2012-02933
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