Article
Performance, behavior, and health of male broilers and laying hens of 2 dual-purpose chicken genotypes.
Poultry science - 1 Oct 2018
Lambertz C, Wuthijaree K, Gauly M
Abstract excerpt
Dual-purpose chicken where both sexes are reared together, before males are separated for final fattening, while females are kept for an entire laying period, may provide an economic alternative under certain production and marketing conditions. Two genotypes, purebred Bresse-Gauloise (PURE, n = 300) and crossbred Bresse-Gauloise × New Hampshire (CROSS, n = 300), were compared. One-day-old mixed-sex chicken were...
Topics
- Animal Husbandry
- Animals
- Chickens
- Female
- Genotype
- Housing, Animal
- Italy
- Male
