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Transportation of Poultry

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 40 , Issue 1 , February 1984 , pp. 19 - 30
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