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Performance comparison of dwarf laying hens segregating for the naked neck gene in temperate and subtropical environments.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 16 Jan 2009
Chen Chih-Feng, Gourichon David, Huang Nein-Zu, Lee Yen-Pai, Bordas André, Tixier-Boichard Michèle
Abstract excerpt
This study compares laying performances between two environments of dwarf laying hen lines segregating for the naked neck mutation (NA locus), a selected dwarf line of brown-egg layers and its control line. Layers with one of the three genotypes at the NA locus were produced from 11 sires from the control line and 12 sires from the selected line. Two hatches produced 216 adult hens in Taiwan and 297 hens in...
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