High-throughput phenotyping to characterise range use behaviour in broiler chickens

A key characteristic of free-range chicken farming is to enable chickens to spend time outdoors. However, each chicken may use the available areas for roaming in variable ways. To check if, and how, broilers use their outdoor range at an individual level, we need to reliably characterise range use b...

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Main Authors: Julie M. Collet, Claire Bonnefous, Karine Germain, Laure Ravon, Ludovic Calandreau, Vanessa Guesdon, Anne Collin, Elisabeth Le Bihan-Duval, Sandrine Mignon-Grasteau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-03-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731124000302