Resource efficiency and economic implications of alternatives to surgical castration without anaesthesia
Open Access
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Animal
- Vol. 3 (11), 1522-1531
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1751731109990516
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