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The Principles Underlying Choice Feeding Behaviour in Fowls—with Special Reference to Production Experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

B. O. Hughes
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Agricultural and Food Research Council's Poultry Research Centre, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9PS, U.K.
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