Effects of age at onset of production, light regime and dietary calcium on performance, eggshell traits, duodenal calbindin and cholecalciferol metabolism

British Poultry Science

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 282-290

  Bar, A ^a   Vax, E ^a   Striem, S ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; CALCIUM; CHOLESTANETRIOL 26 MONOOXYGENASE; COLECALCIFEROL; STEROID MONOOXYGENASE;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CALCIUM INTAKE; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; DARKNESS; DUODENUM; EGG; EGG LAYING; EGG SHELL; FEMALE; ILLUMINATION; KIDNEY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; STANDARD;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM, DIETARY; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CHICKENS; CHOLECALCIFEROL; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP27A1; DARKNESS; DUODENUM; EGG SHELL; EGGS; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; KIDNEY; LIGHT; LIGHTING; OVIPOSITION; STEROID HYDROXYLASES;

EID: 0032060603     PISSN: 00071668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00071669889268     Document Type: Article

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