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Induced Moulting in Laying Fowls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

J. H. Wolford
J. H. Wolford
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, U.S.A.
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , February 1984 , pp. 66 - 73
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