The Effects of Dewinging on Chick Growth and Laying House Performance of Experimental White Leghorns

• Published in: Poultry Science
• Main Authors: Tower, B. A., Johnson, W. A., Dixon, J. M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1964
• Subjects: Articles; Kondo; sami
• Online Access: http://ps.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/43/6/1508; https://doi.org/10.3382/ps.0431508

IS IT economically possible to secure more meat and/or eggs from the domestic fowl by surgically removing all or most of the wings? Some poultry research workers have apparently found positive answers to this question. Kondo et al. (1958) reported an increase in edible thigh and breast meat of 13.9...