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Feed Intake of Laying Hens*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

M. W. McDonald
M. W. McDonald
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School of Environmental and Rural Studies, Queensland Agricultural College, Lawes, Qld. 4345
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , November 1978 , pp. 209 - 221
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Research Bulletin 1/77.

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