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The effect of intermittent lighting programmes on the production of market chickens and turkeys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

R. B. Buckland
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Department of Animal ScienceMacdonald Campus of McGill UniversitySte. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
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