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Factors Influencing Egg Shell Quality—A Review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

J. H. Wolford  and
K. Tanaka
J. H. Wolford
Affiliation:
Poultry Science DepartmentMichigan State UniversityEast Lansing, Michigan 48823, U.S.A.
K. Tanaka
Affiliation:
Department Poultry & Animal Sciences, Gifu UniversityKakamigahara, Gifu, Japan
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , October 1970 , pp. 763 - 780
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