An investigation of the effect of environmental enrichment and space allowance on the behaviour and production of growing pigs

Applied Animal Behaviour Science - Tập 48 Số 3-4 - Trang 151-158 - 1996
V.E. Beattie1, N. Walker1, Ian Sneddon2
1Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland, Hillsborough, Co. Down BT26 6DR, UK
2School of Psychology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK

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