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Leghorn chicken, relatively small, white-colored breed of poultry poultry, domesticated fowl kept primarily for meat and eggs; including birds of the order Galliformes, e.g., the chicken, turkey, guinea fowl, pheasant, quail, and peacock; and natatorial (swimming) birds, e.g., the duck and goose.
..... Click the link for more information. that currently dominates the American egg-producing class. The bird, as bred today, produces a good number of chalk white eggs, a feature which has brought it to the forefront of modern commercial egg production. Although only the "single comb" variety is popular today, many other strains with large egg, better shell, better interior egg qualities, or other desirable traits, are retained as breeding stock. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | To determine infectivity and pathogenicity, using a simulated natural respiratory route of exposure, we intranasally inoculated ten 4-week-old White Leghorn chickens with strain A/chicken/Nigeria/228-5/2005 ([10. The purpose of this study was to determine the pharmacokinetic disposition of deferiprone in the white leghorn chicken as a potential model upon which to base therapeutic regimens for the treatment of iron storage disease (hemochromatosis) in affected avian species. Forty-eight white leghorn chickens were parceled out to coops at homes and at water and road department offices in Lancaster, Palmdale, Quartz Hill and Rosamond. |
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