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Conventional and Shallow Cages: A Summary of Research from Welfare and Production Aspects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

B. O. Hughes
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , October 1983 , pp. 218 - 228
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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