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Breed-dependent susceptibility to acute sound exposure in young chickens.
Hearing research - 1 May 2005
Kaiser Christina L, Girod Douglas A, Durham Dianne
Abstract excerpt
Commercially available chickens fall into two categories: egg layers and broilers. Durham et al. (Hear. Res. 166 (2002) 82-95) showed that despite similar noisy living environments, cochleae of most adult broilers show extensive damage, while cochleae of adult egg layers are largely normal. This finding suggests that egg layers and broilers differ in their susceptibility to noise damage. Here, we evaluate breed...
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