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A small (+.175) but highly significant (P<.01) correlation coefficient between shell color and specific gravity was revealed as a result of examining 3341 eggs produced by a popular brown egg strain of layers over a 15 week period. It was not conclusively shown that a progressively higher correlation noted over time was associated with advancing age of birds.
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Grover et al. (1980) studied this question.
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