Variation in the three-week body temperature of broilers and Athens-Canadian randombred chickens.

doi:10.3382/ps.0690486

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Variation in the three-week body temperature of broilers and Athens-Canadian randombred chickens.

Poultry science - 1 Mar 1990

Washburn K W, Pinson E R

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The body temperatures of commercial broilers and an Athens-Canadian randombred population (ACRB), correlations of body temperature with BW, and a sire family heritability (h2) estimate in the ACRB population were obtained. The body temperature of the broilers was significantly lower than that of...

Topics

Analysis of Variance
Animals
Body Temperature
Body Weight
Breeding
Chickens
Genetic Variation

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