Research Resources:

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Pea Comb and Naked Neck genes effect on an area of chickens associated with nesting https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.817.1681&rep=rep1&type=pdf

 

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Refinement study involving Na, O and P genes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579119459397

 

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Walnut Comb Fertility https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.4141/cjas64-028

 

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Things they can do now… this is cool a bit mad scientist, but useful to save a breed or even bring it back https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8271167/

 

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You can get your birds gender tested if you can’t tell yet… I had no clue till someone told me, they also can test for diseases…

Science is awesome! I am going to try it out when I hatch some chicks in the future.

https://iqbirdtesting.com/

 

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Judging Poultry and Eggs Manual https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/downloads/z603r214b

 

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The Call Of The Hen… historic book on breeding for egg production… https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/76466#page/5/mode/1up

 

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Info on DPM… finding weird gross in middle of breast meat from modern Turkey and CornishX type birds… https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poultry/myopathies/exertional-myopathy-in-poultry#v8986629

 

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1913 Book. Money In Reds https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/158879#page/1/mode/1up

 

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200 Eggs A Year Per Hen: How To Get Them 1904 Book https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/75626#page/5/mode/1up