Monogastrics - Breeding in animal production (lessons from the past)
11 important questions on Monogastrics - Breeding in animal production (lessons from the past)
What is the primary production goal of monogastrics?
- Efficient production of meat and/or eggs
- Efficiency: e.g. Feed conversion rate: kg feed/kg end product
- pigs - 2.65
- broilers - 1.7
- laying hens - 2.2 (kg egg)
What is the first method of selection for efficiency?
Why does selection for fast growth contribute to better efficiency?
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What are three environmental improvements in which breeding develops?
- Conditioned housing
- optimized feeding
- hygiene disease prevention
What is a physiological limit?
What are five examples of physiological problems?
- Higher disease susceptibility
- Higher stress
- Lower fertility
- Shorter life span
- Lower resilience to environmental fluctuations
What does the physiological limit osteoporosis within laying hens entail?
What is the physiological limit of distrubed yolk hierarchy mean?
What are causes of physiological limits?
What are the social demands and the circular system demands for the change of production systems?
- Societal demands: welfare, health, antibiotics, pollution
- Circular systems: less resources --> less optimized feed, less pollution --> less GHG
There is an increasing demand for animal sourced food. This is caused by increased income and an increasing world population. How can we cope with this?
- Increase production and more efficiency per animal
- More animals required
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