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Intermittent Lighting for Laying Fowls: A Review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

K. W. Rowland
K. W. Rowland
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Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Agricultural Development and Advisory Service, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge CB2 2DR
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , February 1985 , pp. 5 - 19
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