Cool perch availability improves the performance and welfare status of broiler chickens in hot weather
Open Access
- 1 August 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Poultry Science
- Vol. 91 (8), 1775-1784
- https://doi.org/10.3382/ps.2011-02058
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