Genetic analysis of the laying pattern in floor management in terms of new performance parameters for breeding;Genetische analyse des legemusters in der bodenhaltung im hinblickauf neue leistungsprüfungskriterien für die legehennenzucht

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Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 187-199

  Icken, Wiebke ^a   Thurner, Stefan ^b   Cavero, David ^a   Schmutz, Matthias ^a   Wendl, Georg ^b   Preisinger, Rudolf ^a  

^a LOHMANN TIERZUCHT GMBH   (Germany)

^b Bayerische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft LfL Institut für Landtechnik und Tierhaltung   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genetic parameters; Layers; Laying sequence; Oviposition time; Time interval

Indexed keywords

EID: 67549086127     PISSN: 00039438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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