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The effect of intermittent lighting programmes on the production of market chickens and turkeys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

R. B. Buckland
R. B. Buckland
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Department of Animal ScienceMacdonald Campus of McGill UniversitySte. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , November 1975 , pp. 262 - 270
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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