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The Effects Of Dieldrin On Chickens, Sondra Severson
The Effects Of Dieldrin On Chickens, Sondra Severson
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
In this study, insecticide residues in chicken eggs, livers, and fats were monitored in a flock of chickens for seventy-nine days. The test group was fed dieldrin in their drinking water for eighteen days and then was returned to normal water for forty-two more days. The sacrificed birds of the test group showed a 0.39 ppm average increase in dieldrin residue in the eggs, 0 .14 ppm in the livers and 9.54ppm in the fats when compared with the control eggs. livers and fats respectively. The I-test calculations showed these results to be significant.
Observations of the embryos from the …