Investigating the heat tolerance and production performance in local chicken breed having normal and dwarf size

Heat stress significantly impairs the growth performance of broilers, which causes serious losses to the poultry industry every year. Thus, understanding the performance of indigenous chicken breeds under such environment is crucial to address heat stress problem. The purpose of this study was to in...

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Main Authors: Ali Hassan Nawaz, Shudai Lin, Fujian Wang, Jiahui Zheng, Junli Sun, Weilu Zhang, Zhenhai Jiao, Zijing Zhu, Lilong An, Li Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-03-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731123000034