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| Pereira,DF; Nääs,A; Salgado,DA; Gaspar,CR; Bighi,CA; Penha,NLJ. |
| Animal welfare issues have received much attention not only to supply farmed animal requirements, but also to ethical and cultural public concerns. Daily collected information, as well as the systematic follow-up of production stages, produces important statistical data for production assessment and control, as well as for improvement possibilities. In this scenario, this research study analyzed behavioral, production, and environmental data using Main Component Multivariable Analysis, which correlated observed behaviors, recorded using video cameras and electronic identification, with performance parameters of female broiler breeders. The aim was to start building a system to support decision-making in broiler breeder housing, based on bird behavioral... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Animal welfare; Behavior; Heat stress. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-635X2007000400001 |
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