An attempt to force molt small egg-type pullets.
Small 1.1 kg. egg-type pullets having the sex-linked dw dwarfing gene were more resistant to a force molting program started at 11 months of age than were their 1.4 kg. non-dwarf counterparts.  Water deprivation appeared to prevent egg production sooner in the dwarfs than in the non-dwarfs but egg production eight weeks after initiation of the force molt program was 46 per cent versus 64 per cent for the non-dwarf pullets.
D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens / Q000502:physiology*; D004531:Eggs; D005241:Feathers; D005260:Female; D006799:Housing, Animal; D008027:Light; D010058:Oviposition; D011153:Population; D012730:Sex Chromosomes; D014868:Water Deprivation