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Physiology and Behavior, 2003
The commercial restricted feeding programme of broiler breeders has a major negative effect on welfare, as the birds are continuously hungry. Objective parameters of hunger are needed to evaluate new management or feeding systems that may alleviate hunger and thus improve broiler breeder welfare.
Ingrid C de Jong, Harry Blokhuis
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Pinealoma in a Broiler Breeder

Avian Diseases, 1986
An incidental central nervous system tumor was found in a broiler breeder. The cellular mass was histologically similar to the normal pineal gland, but it was characterized by a decreased ratio of follicular/parafollicular cells, a relative increase in mitoses, a size three times greater than a normal pineal gland, and growth and expansion into ...
D E, Swayne, G N, Rowland, O J, Fletcher
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Tenosynovitis in broilers and broiler breeder flocks

New Zealand Veterinary Journal, 1978
Abstract Tenosynovitis in commercial broiler breeder flocks, characterised by severe lameness, resulted in malnutrition and eventual culling of these chickens. Histologically there was metaplasia of tendons, tendon sheaths, connective tissues and infiltration with heterophils. Although Staph. aureus was isolated from some specimens, it is probable that
B S, Bains, C L, Tempest
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