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The hen's egg: Shell cracking at impact on a heavy, stiff body and factors that affect it

G. B. Anderson Agricultural Research Council's Poultry Research Centre, King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JS, Scotland
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T. C. Carter Agricultural Research Council's Poultry Research Centre, King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JS, Scotland
Pages 613-626 | Received 14 Nov 1975, Published online: 08 Nov 2007

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M.M. Bain. (2005) Recent advances in the assessment of eggshell quality and their future application. World's Poultry Science Journal 61:2, pages 268-277.
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T. C. Carter. (1977) The hen's egg: Relationship of mean strain energy at shell fracture to shell compression speed, the nature of the compressing body and the location on the shell of the point of contact. British Poultry Science 18:2, pages 205-211.
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T. C. Garter. (1977) The hen's egg: A method for estimating the principal curvatures at any point on the shell. British Poultry Science 18:1, pages 101-106.
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ABDOU G. ABDALLAH, R.H. HARMS & O. EL-HUSSEINY. (1993) Various Methods of Measuring Shell Quality in Relation to Percentage of Cracked Eggs. Poultry Science 72:11, pages 2038-2043.
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