Biotechnological methods of using genes-modifiers to produce the new selection forms of color and feather sex poultry
It was shown that, aimed to increase the sexing accuracy of 1-d chicks, geese, pearl hens in the course of selection process, it is necessary to use the bird with explicitly expressed colouring of down and growth rate of a feather. The relatively high productivity revealed in some female families indicates the possibility to produce, on the basis of the studied bird, the autosex industrial forms of hens, geese and pearl hens.