Keel bone fractures are more prevalent in White Leghorn hens than in Red Jungle fowl hens—A pilot study

• Käthe Elise Kittelsen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Käthe Elise Kittelsen, Guro Vasdal

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kathe.kittelsen@animalia.no

  Affiliation Animalia- The Norwegian Meat and Poultry Research Centre, Oslo, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6821-0229

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• Pall Gretarsson ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, NMBU—Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway

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• Per Jensen ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation AVIAN Behavioural Genomics and Physiology Group, IFM Biology, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden

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• Jens Peter Christensen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Ingrid Toftaker ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, NMBU—Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9653-0257

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• Randi Oppermann Moe ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, NMBU—Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway

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• Guro Vasdal

  Contributed equally to this work with: Käthe Elise Kittelsen, Guro Vasdal

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animalia- The Norwegian Meat and Poultry Research Centre, Oslo, Norway

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