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A Review of the Nutrition of Japanese Quail

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

Vohra Pran
Vohra Pran
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Department of Avian Sciences, University of California, Davis,California95616
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , January 1971 , pp. 26 - 34
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