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Egg Shell Quality I: The Body-Checked Egg1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

David A. Roland Sr.
David A. Roland Sr.
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Poultry Science Department, Alabama Agricultural Experiment StationAuburn University, AL 36849
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , October 1984 , pp. 250 - 254
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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