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Calorimetric studies on the utilization of dietary energy by the laying White Leghorn hen in relation to plane of nutrition and environmental temperature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

J. J. Waring
Affiliation:
Agricultural Chemistry Department, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
W. O. Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Queen's University, Belfast and Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland

Extract

1. Calorimetric experiments on the utilization of dietary energy by the laying White Leghorn hen are described.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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