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Stress and the Domestic Fowl: a Physiological Appraisal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2007

B. M. Freeman
B. M. Freeman
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Houghton Poultry Research Station, Houghton, Huntingdon, PEI 7 2DA, England
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , July 1971 , pp. 263 - 275
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