Epigenetics for more efficient broilers

When broiler breeders are confronted with a lifetime of protein restriction, their offspring grow at least equally as fast as the broilers whose mothers and/or grandmothers never faced a protein restriction. Over the past few decades there has been a lot of research on the performance of broiler breeders. According to Prof Johan Buyse, head of the laboratory of Livestock Physiology at Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, the prevention of obesity and associated metabolic diseases, mortalit