Fear and stress reactions, and the performance of commercial broiler chickens subjected to regular pleasant and unpleasant contacts with human being
An experiment was conducted to determine the effects of regular pleasant and unpleasant contacts with human beings on tonic immobility (TI) response, heterophil to lymphocyte ratio (HLR), body weight, feed conversion ratios (FCR) and mortality in commercial broiler chickens. The following treatments...
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Elsevier
2004
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Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40391/1/Fear%20and%20stress%20reactions%2C%20and%20the%20performance%20of%20commercial%20broiler%20chickens%20subjected%20to%20regular%20pleasant%20and%20unpleasant%20contacts%20with%20human%20being.pdf |