Short-term feather maintenance as a function of dust-bathing in laying hens

1987/08/01 by Diederik W. van Liere, D.W. van Liere, S. Bokma · 62 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Medicine · #Animal Nutrition and Physiology #Animal science #Bathing #Bee Products Chemical Analysis #Biology #Feather #Laying #Meat and Animal Product Quality #Medicine #Physics #Zoology

paper · open access · doi:10.1016/0168-1591(87)90193-6

published in Applied Animal Behaviour Science 18(2), 197-204 (Elsevier BV)

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