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Poultry at high altitudes: Chicken colony at White Mountain Research Station is used for study of the adaptation of animals to climatic stress

authors

Arthur H. Smith, University of California, Davis.
Hans Abplanalp, University of California, Davis.
Lloyd M. Harwood, University of California, Santa Rosa.
Clarence F. Kelly, University of California, Davis.

publication information

California Agriculture 13(11):8-9. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v013n11p8. November 1959.

author affiliations

Arthur H. Smith is Associate Professor of Poultry Husbandry, University of California, Davis. Hans Abplanalp is Assistant Professor of Poultry Husbandry, University of California, Davis. Lloyd M. Harwood is Farm Advisor, University of California, Santa Rosa. Clarence F. Kelly is Professor of Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis.

abstract

Abstract Not Available – First paragraph follows:

Physiological adaptation–the ability to change so as to live more or less normally in a previously unfavorable or stressing environment–is one of the most universal properties of living things. However, the native ability of animals to adjust to variations in their environment has to a large extent been sacrificed in breeding animals for modern high standards of production.

author notes

The above progress report is based on Research Project No. 1817. This work is also supported by a research grant, No. H-1920, from the National Heart Institute, U. S. Public Health Service.

The White Mountain High-Altitude Research Station in Mono County has laboratories at elevations of 10,000', 12,500', and 14,250'. Nello Pace, Professor of Physiology, University of California, Berkeley, is Operations Director.


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