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Turkeys: Recent research in breeding, use of lights, handling of hatching eggs, and in feeding

authors

V. S. Asmundson, Poultry Husbandman in the Experiment Station, Davis.

publication information

California Agriculture 2(1):5-15. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v002n01p5. January 1948.

abstract

Not available – first paragraph follows:

Results of several years of experiments in making crosses between broadbreasted and other strains of Bronze turkeys have demonstrated that the differences in weight, width of breast, and other characters are inherited and the indications are that there is a high degree of heritability.

author affiliations

V. S. Asmundson is Professor of Poultry Husbandry, and Poultry Husbandman in the Experiment Station, Davis.

author notes

F. W. Lorenz, Assistant Professor of Poultry Husbandry, and Assistant Poultry Husbandman in the Experiment Station, Davis, and F. H. Kratzer, Assistant Professor of Poultry Husbandry, and Assistant Poultry Husbandman in the Experiment Station, Davis, participated in the studies reported above by Dr. Asmundson.


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