Abstract
1. The application of crude papain to cause loosening of feathers in chickens after death was successful in a laboratory experiment.
2. The treatment disrupted keratin cross‐bridges between the feather shaft and the follicle, and may have proteolysed feather follicle muscles.
Notes
Contribution No. 159‐E 1979 series from the Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel.
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