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Performances zootechniques de la poule Ardennaise, une race ancienne pour le futur ?
Moula, Nassim; Antoine-Moussiaux, Nicolas; Farnir, Frédéric et al.
2009In Annales de Médecine Vétérinaire, 153 (1), p. 66-75
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Abstract :
[en] Nowadays, Belgian poultry breeding is characterized by a strong biodiversity that is nevertheless greatly endangered. The present work aims at evaluating the zootechnical potential of an ancient poultry breed originating from the Franco-Belgian Ardennes region, the Ardennaise. This breed shows an important phenotypic variation, with 10 different varieties being recognized. This study evaluates the Ardennaise production performances and is divided into three parts: (1) the analysis of the growth and the consumption indices over a twelve weeks period, (2) the comparison of the growth over seventeen weeks in four varieties, (3) the study of eggs number and eggs weight over 70 weeks laying. The results indicate that the Ardennaise breed constitutes a good dual purpose breed that could be interestingly submitted to selection. Its use in industrial crosses for egg composition amelioration is also proposed. Lastly, this works shows the importance of extending the here developed evaluation protocol to other Belgian endangered poultry breeds to motivate the necessary conservation programs.
Disciplines :
Animal production & animal husbandry
Author, co-author :
Moula, Nassim  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Doct. sc. vété. (Bologne)
Antoine-Moussiaux, Nicolas  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de productions animales > Biostatistique, économie, sélection animale
Farnir, Frédéric  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de productions animales > Biostatistiques et bioinformatique appliquées aux sc. vétér.
Phillippart De Foy, Martin
Leroy, Pascal ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de productions animales > Biostatistique, économie, sélection animale
Language :
French
Title :
Performances zootechniques de la poule Ardennaise, une race ancienne pour le futur ?
Publication date :
2009
Journal title :
Annales de Médecine Vétérinaire
ISSN :
0003-4118
eISSN :
1781-3875
Publisher :
ULg - Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium
Volume :
153
Issue :
1
Pages :
66-75
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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