The hen's egg: Test of an industrial plerophory |
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| Authors: | T. C. Carter Kathleen M. Herron |
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| Affiliation: | Agricultural Research Council's , Poultry Research Centre , West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JS, Scotland |
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| Abstract: | 1. Experiments with eggs from fowls of three strains failed to support a breeder's belief that the sex of a chick could be predicted from the position of the air space relative to the axis of the egg. 2. Relative to sex found at dissection, the accuracy of sexing newly hatched chicks by endoscope was 98% and by head markings (in Brown Leghorns) 88%. |
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