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Group selection for adaptation to multiple-hen cages: selection program and direct responses.

Poultry science - 1 Apr 1996

Muir W M

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A selection experiment was initiated with a synthetic line of White Leghorns in 1982 to improve adaptability and well-being of layers in large multiple-bird cages by use of a selection procedure termed "group selection". With this procedure, each sire family was housed as a group in a multiple-bird cage and selected or rejected as a group. An unselected control, with approximately the same number of breeders as...

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PMID: 8786932
DOI: 10.3382/ps.0750447

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