Genetics and traits

The Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW), a globally recognised investor framework for assessing companies' performance on farm animal welfare, has released its annual report for 2020.

The NFU believes new precision breeding techniques, such as gene editing, could protect crops and animals from pests and disease, help deliver net zero and allow farmers to produce more home-grown food.

The modern layer hybrid production is facing to quite a lot and different type of demands are arising from the markets, the societies and the climate changes, like product quality, safety, efficiency, environment sensiti…

Based in the UK, Dinah Nicholson, Head of Aviagen’s Global Hatchery Support team, works with team members in the US, Turkey, China and Malaysia to provide effective hatchery support to Aviagen and customer hatcheries and…

With EPEF scores surpassing 500, New Zealand growers keep outdoing their best

Aviagen® India customers continue to outdo their best and have recently reached a significant milestone -- Performance Efficiency Factor (PEF) scores of greater than 500. In fact, many customers are seeing 400+ PEF numbe…

Researchers at University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute have found that gene-editing can transfer beneficial genes between breeds to produce offspring with useful characteristics.

Researchers are investigating the genetic make-up of 3,000 chickens.

USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue has signed a MOU that puts the Department of Agriculture as the chief regulator over farm animal biotechnology and gene editing.

Turkey becomes Aviagen’s fourth production base to achieve compartment status worldwide

The NFU believes that harnessing gene editing technology and biotechnology can help the UK reach its net zero carbon ambitions.

Plans to consult on gene editing – which could unlock substantial benefits to nature, the environment and help farmers with crops resistant to pests, disease or extreme weather and to produce healthier, more nutritious food – will be set out today by Environment Secretary George Eustice in his speech at the Oxford Farming Conference.…

A newly discovered gene linked to bone quality could lead to better health in laying hens

Key data on poultry has been included in the UK's National Breed Inventory, ensuring that poultry species will continue to be viewed as a vital genetic resource.

More than 3,000 people joined the weekly Cobb Tech Talks webinar series this year

Broiler breeders fed twice a day were calmer and laid more eggs

Rapid development of wind energy across the American Great Plains has spurred concern about potential effects on grassland birds, the most rapidly declining avian group in North America.

New findings about viral regions in the DNA of chickens aim to aid productivity for smallholder farms in developing countries.

Researchers have identified the genetic regions associated with resistance to Marek's disease in chickens.

First study to highlight welfare differences between fast and slower growing broilers in a commercial setting using welfare indicators