Selection for high production in poultry

Resource Allocation Theory Applied to Farm Animal Production

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 230-242

  Siegel, P B ^a   Honaker, C F ^a   Rauw, W M ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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