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Comparative study of growth curves in poultry J Hyánek L Hyánková, P Bjadnr;lijadnr;ek Research Institute of Animal Production, 104 00 Prague 10-UhNneves, Czech Republic (Received 26 April 1993; accepted 6 February 1995) Summary - This paper compares the growth patterns of chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese. The growth curves and their parameters were estimated by the Richards function. In this work, weight data of females of current sire lines (62 chickens, 47 ducks and 42 geese) and commercial medium-type hybrids (27 turkeys) were used. Birds were fed ad libitum (R2 = 0.9840 to 0.9994).