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An allometric-autoregressive approach to poultry development.
British poultry science - 1 May 1992
Belt M J, Casey N H, Smith G A
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1. The relative rates of development in a commercial layer and a broiler strain of chicken fed 180 or 230 g crude protein/kg were investigated by the use of the allometric-autoregressive model. Development was divided into pre-pubertal (0 to 8 weeks) and pubertal phases (8 to 22 weeks). 2. Significant strain effects were observed, at all ages, in rates of gain of live (L) body mass, carcass (C) mass, non-carcase...
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