Predicting egg weight, shell weight, shell thickness and hatching chick weight of japanese quails using various egg traits as regressors

International Journal of Poultry Science

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 164-167

  Khurshid, A ^a   Farooq, M ^a   Durrani, F R ^a   Sarbiland, K ^a   Chand, N ^a  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Chick weight; Egg length and width; Egg weight; Shell weight and shell thickness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947693307     PISSN: 16828356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/ijps.2003.164.167     Document Type: Article

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