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Genetic resistance to natural helminth infections in two chicken layer lines.
Veterinary parasitology - 10 Mar 2011
Kaufmann Falko, Daş Gürbüz, Preisinger Rudolf, Schmutz Matthias, König Sven, Gauly Matthias
Abstract excerpt
Groups of Lohmann Brown (LB) and Lohmann Selected Leghorn (LSL) hens were reared under helminth-free conditions and kept afterwards together in a free range system. Mortality rate, body weight development, laying performance and faecal egg counts (FEC) were recorded during a 12 month laying period. At the end of the laying period, 246 LSL and 197 LB hens were necropsied and worms counted following the World...
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