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The hen's egg: Independence of weight at oviposition and the sex of the chick

T. C. Carter Agricultural Research Council's, Poultry Research Centre, King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JS, Scotland
Pages 125-127 | Published online: 08 Nov 2007
 
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1. Cockerels tend to be heavier than pullets at hatching and an experiment was therefore done to test the null hypothesis that the eggs from which cockerels hatch are, on average, at oviposition of the same weight as those from which pullets hatch.

2. The experiment did not disprove it.

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