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Chicken welfare is influenced more by housing conditions than by stocking density
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Metadata
- Authors
- Stamp Dawkins, M., Donnelly, C. A., & Jones, T. A.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2004-01
- Volume
- 427
- Issue
- 6972
- Pages
- 342-344
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1979028305
- Cited by
- 687
- References
- 18
- FWCI
- 28.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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