Effect of age at photostimulation on sexual maturation and egg-laying performance of layer breeders

ABSTRACT: The objective of this study was to determine the effect of age at photostimulation on sexual maturity and performance of layer breeders. A total of 192 fourteen-wk-old White Leghorn (WL) breeder hens were randomly allocated to 4 treatments of 48 birds each, with 2 replicates per treatment....

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Main Authors: Lei Shi, Yanyan Sun, Hong Xu, Yifan Liu, Yunlei Li, Ziyan Huang, Aixin Ni, Chao Chen, Dongli Li, Panlin Wang, Jing Fan, Hui Ma, Jilan Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-02-01
Series:Poultry Science
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579119580774