On-farm broiler chicken welfare assessment using transect sampling reflects environmental inputs and production outcomes

• Neila BenSassi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Neila BenSassi, Judit Vas, Ruth C. Newberry

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Production, Neiker-Tecnalia, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

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• Judit Vas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Neila BenSassi, Judit Vas, Ruth C. Newberry

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Faculty of Biosciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

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• Guro Vasdal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Norwegian Meat and Poultry Research Centre, Oslo, Norway

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5825-9275

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• Xavier Averós,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Production, Neiker-Tecnalia, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

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• Inma Estévez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Animal Production, Neiker-Tecnalia, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain

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• Ruth C. Newberry

  Contributed equally to this work with: Neila BenSassi, Judit Vas, Ruth C. Newberry

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ruth.newberry@nmbu.no

  Affiliation Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Faculty of Biosciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5238-6959

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