Focus on key traits in layers

23-11-2015 | | |
Photos: World Poultry</p> <p>Managing director, professor Rudi Preisinger of Lohmann Tierzucht, explains why his company is focusing on key traits more than on welfare traits.  Profit per hen housed is the name of our game.
Photos: World Poultry

Managing director, professor Rudi Preisinger of Lohmann Tierzucht, explains why his company is focusing on key traits more than on welfare traits. Profit per hen housed is the name of our game.

Gather an audience of layer distributors and hatchery experts from around the world and you can be assured that, when it comes to the most favourable genetic traits, there will be no consensus. “Well, there is one. Upping the profit per hen housed,” explains professor Rudi Preisinger of Lohmann Tierzucht at the 53rd Franchise Distributor Meeting in Istanbul. According to the chief geneticist of Lohmann, the layer traits that are at the forefront of the mind differ by region and sometimes eve


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