Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LIX
Written by Gabriel Cătălin GÎLEA, Elena POPESCU MICLOȘANU, Alexandru KELEMEN
Biodiversity domestic livestock species that produce various products is very important in the context of human population growth, but equally for meeting the demand for certain types of special foods especially appreciated by gourmets. Thus, the ducks can provide a wide range of products with high organoleptic and nutritional quality that can meet different consumer categories.This requires analysis of different indices of breeding duck breeds in order to improve them through various means, such as controlling the storage conditions of the eggs (the term, the microclimate in storage room) and incubation parameters.The study was done at the web-footed farm in Moara Domneasca, the biobase of the University of Agriculture Science and Veterinary Medicine from Bucharest, on the collection of duck breeds that consisted of: Barbarie, Pekin, Indian Running and Campbell.We observed six incubation series at an interval of seven days each. Incubation was done using a Smart Performer volume incubator with a capacity of 10.000 eggs.
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