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Who is Who? Non-invasive Methods to Individually Sex and Mark Altricial Chicks
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Who is Who? Non-invasive Methods to Individually Sex and Mark Altricial Chicks

Who is Who? Non-invasive Methods to Individually Sex and Mark Altricial Chicks

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08:14 min

May 24, 2014

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08:14 min
May 24, 2014

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This protocol provides a convenient set of methods, which enables extremely fast, easy, non-invasive, reliable and low-cost, molecular sex determination of birds and their non-invasive, quick, safe and easily recognizable marking shortly after hatching. Only limited handling of chicks is required. This convenient toolbox of methods complies entirely with the RRR-guidelines.

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