Productive indicators of waterfowl in the northern region of Kazakhstan
Keywords:
poultry farming, waterfowl, line, cross, selection, productivity, livestock safety, methods, techniques, selection parameters, ducksAbstract
In providing the country’s population with diverse and high-quality livestock products, a special place should be given to the production of meat from waterfowl species of poultry, as one of the sources of biologically complete protein in human nutrition. The creation of effective breeding programs and the breeding of new domestic breeds, lines, and crosses of waterfowl species of birds with breeding and productive qualities at the level of the best world samples, possibly not only due to the transfer of genetic material but also with the wide use of the existing domestic gene pool of birds.
The challenge of agricultural poultry conservation has faced scientists in the field over the years. It was especially acute with the transfer of poultry production to an industrial basis, which led to the creation of highly productive specialized lines and crosses of agricultural poultry for the production of eggs and meat from limited genetic material [1,2,3].
