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Performance of early and late feathering broiler breeder females with different feeding regimens.
British poultry science - 1 Dec 1991
O'Sullivan N P, Dunnington E A, Smith E J, Gross W B, Siegel P B
Abstract excerpt
1. Growth, reproductive characteristics and immunocompetence were evaluated in a line of broiler breeder females segregating at the sex-linked feathering locus when maintained on three feeding regimens with two forms of food in a factorial design. 2. Long-term obesity but not short-term weight gain had deleterious consequences for reproductive characteristics, response to sheep red blood cell antigen, resistance...
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