Effect of ascorbic acid treatment during egg incubation and after hatch on embryonic development, hatch time, and body weight changes of posthatch incubation time of broiler chickens

Archiv fur Geflugelkunde

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 176-182

  Zakaria, A H ^a,c   Al Latif, A A ^b  

^a DAMASCUS UNIVERSITY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c NONE   (Syrian Arab Republic)

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