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Eggs--Production

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = TD

Found in 147 Collections and/or Records:

Observations on the laying behaviour of hens in battery cages, 1969

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/538
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1969.

Dates: 1969

Oestrogen and the pre-laying behaviour of the domestic hen, 3 August 1969

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/539
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1969.

Dates: 3 August 1969

Osteoporosis in laying hens, 1994

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/4/619
Scope and Contents

Located in Roslin Institute Staff Papers 1994. Part 2.

Dates: 1994

Ovulatory and ovipository cycles, 1971

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/637
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1971.

Dates: 1971

Page mounted with photograph of a hen standing on three boxes labelled 'Eggs' and two baskets of eggs, Undated, c.1949

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1057/6/2/32
Scope and Contents

Annotation reads: 'Sister of the hen which laid 1515 eggs in 9 laying years and shared the world's record.'

Dates: Undated, c.1949

Page mounted with two photographs and two items, 1954

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1057/6/2/62
Scope and Contents Recto: photograph of Dr Bolton at work in the Nutrition Laboratory of the Poultry Research Centre (the caption notes that he is the 1954 Tom Newman Memorial Prize Winner) and photograph of an unidentified female in the interior of one of the laying houses. The caption on the back reads 'Trap nesting the laying bird for accurate records of egg production.' Verso: a card with information about Parliament Hall and the Upper Hall of the Signet Library; Alan Greenwood's ticket for the...
Dates: 1954

Patent Egg Testing Machine, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3407
Scope and Contents

Illustration of a patented egg testing machine showing the eggs going through it on a conveyor belt with an area for defective eggs and a feeding tray.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Phosphate excretion in the laying hen, 1969

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/526
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1969.

Dates: 1969