The effect of genotype, housing system and egg collection time on egg quality in egg type hens

Czech Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-23

  Tůmová, Eva ^a   Skrivan M ^a,b   Englmaierova M ^a   Zita, L ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Collection time; Egg quality; Genotype; Hens; Housing system

Indexed keywords

EID: 60049088475     PISSN: 12121819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17221/1736-cjas     Document Type: Article

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