Duration of tonic immobility affected by housing environment in White Leghorn hens.

Duration of tonic immobility, recognized as a criterion of fearfulness, was greater for hens kept in 17-bird cages than for hens kept in floor pens, single bird cages, and 5-bird cages.

• Publication year

  1983

• Venue

  Poultry Science

• Publication date

  1983-11-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Biology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3382/PS.0622280PMID 6657572
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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