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Factors Influencing Egg Shell Quality—A Review*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

C. F. Petersen
C. F. Petersen
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Department of Poultry Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, U.S.A.
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 1965 , pp. 110 - 138
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