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Blood-spotting in eggs: Controlled by breeding in a ten-generation selection experiment with Single Comb White Leghorns
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California Agriculture 5(10):3-13.
Published October 01, 1951
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Abstract
Blood-spotting in chicken eggs can be controlled by breeding. Heredity is the most important known factor responsible for the tendency of birds to produce blood-spotted eggs. To study the influence of genetic differences between birds with respect to this common defect, a selection experiment was undertaken.