Data for individual birds exposed to 10 mW/cm2 are plotted in Fig. 3. Based on values obtained from individual curves the mean and standard deviation for the last half of molting for 10 mW/cm2 exposed birds is estimated to be 62.1 ± 7.3 days with full molting requiring 110 to 150 days. Two birds were exposed to microwave irradiation at 1 and 25 mW/cm2, respectively. One of two birds exposed to 1 mW/cm2 (Fig. 4) and both exposed to 25 mW/cm2 (Fig. 4) were already molting at the time they were included in the experiment. While the shape of the curves for both birds at 1 mW/cm2 resembled those (sigmoid) obtained for the controls and 10 mW/cm2, the curves for the two 25 mW exposed birds were markedly different, indicating microwave radiation may have delayed molting. Although there were too few birds at 25 mW/cm2 for conclusive evidence, there is no indication of altered molting for the 1 and 10 mW/cm2 exposed birds when compared to the controls (Fig. 5). An analysis of the time required for the last half (50%) of molt revealed that the mean difference between control and 10 mW/cm2 exposed birds using a t-test was about 2 days and was not statistically signfiicant (p>0.05) whereas the time for the last half of molt for the 25 mW/cm2 was
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