Le Roy, Caroline Ivanne https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0341-751X
Woodward, Martin John
Ellis, Richard John
La Ragione, Roberto Marcello
Claus, Sandrine Paule
Article History
Received: 14 September 2018
Accepted: 21 December 2018
First Online: 25 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures were performed in compliance with the revised Animals Scientific Procedures Act, 1986 in the UK and Directive 2010/63EU in Europe approved by the Animal & Plant Health Agency (APHA- ) and birds were housed according to Home Office guidelines (Home office license -PPL 70/7249-). In this study, NovoGen Brown commercial layer hens sourced from a commercial supplier (Tom Barron Ltd., UK) were used. All experiments were conducted following the ARRIVE check list gideline (Additional file ).
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