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Stress and the Domestic Fowl: A Physiological Re-Appraisal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

B.M. Freeman
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Houghton Poultry Research Station, Houghton, Huntingdon PE17 2DA, Cambs., England.
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