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Why Do Egg Shells Crack?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

T. C. Carter
T. C. Carter
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Agricultural Research Council's Poultry Research Centre, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JS, Scotland.
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 1970 , pp. 549 - 561
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