Abstract
Adult cockerels of a commercial egg-producing strain did not develop liver haemorrhages when maintained for 12 weeks on a diet containing 400 g rapeseed meal/kg food. Haemorrhages occurred in 43% of laying hens of the same strain as the cockerels and 33% of laying hens of another strain maintained on the same diet for the same period. Oestrogenisation of the male birds did not influence the incidence of haemorrhage.
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