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research article

Estrogens for fattening poultry: Treatment of chickens on increase but is not recommended for turkeys

authors

F. W. Lorenz, Experiment Station, Davis.

publication information

California Agriculture 3(9):11-12. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v003n09p11. September 1949.

author affiliations

F. W. Lorenz is Assistant Professor of Poultry Husbandry and Assistant Poultry Husbandman in the Experiment Station, Davis.

abstract

Not available – first paragraph follows:

The use of estrogens for fattening chickens is now an established procedure in some segments of the meat-bird industry.

author notes

The above progress report is based on Research Project No. 677-C-3