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Types of Egg Produced in White Plymouth Rock Hens*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2007

J. H. van Middelkoop
J. H. van Middelkoop
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Spelderholt Institute for Poultry Research, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Beekbergen, The Netherlands
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , May 1978 , pp. 69 - 80
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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Adapted from the paper presented at the XVIIIth British Poultry Breeders Roundtable held at 16–18 November, 1976, at Edinburgh (GB).

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