Effect of the frizzle gene (F) on egg production and egg quality of laying hens kept in tropical villages.

doi:10.1080/00071668.2014.963026

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Effect of the frizzle gene (F) on egg production and egg quality of laying hens kept in tropical villages.

British poultry science - 1 Jan 2014

Adomako K, Olympio O S, Hagan J K, Hamidu J A

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1. Two experiments were conducted to determine the influence of the frizzle gene (F) on the production and quality of chicken eggs kept on village farms in Ghana. 2. In the first experiment, 144 pullets, 72 each of Ff and ff pullets from F1 birds, were compared in a randomised complete block design (RCBD), with three villages and 4 batches of hatch as blocks and the two feather genotypes (Ff and ff) as the...

Topics

Animals
Chickens
Eggs
Female
Genes
Genotype
Ghana
Heterozygote
Homozygote
Hybridization, Genetic
Male
Oviposition
Quantitative Trait, Heritable
Tropical Climate

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PMID: 25277785
DOI: 10.1080/00071668.2014.963026

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