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Thursday, September 19, 2019
More Eggs and Less Disease and Death
Unnatural selection has resulted in tremendous gains in egg production, with hens moving from 150 eggs a year in the 1930s, and a mortality rate of about 40 percent, to 250 eggs per year, and a mortality rate of just 5 percent.
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