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Stress and the Domestic Fowl: Physiological Fact or Fantasy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

B. M. Freeman
B. M. Freeman
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Houghton Poultry Research Station, Houghton, Huntingdon, Cambs. PE17 2DA, England.
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , February 1985 , pp. 45 - 51
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