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Conference Papers Year : 2022

Genetic parameters of feeding behaviour traits in parental lines of a mule duck

Abstract

Automatic feeders were used to characterize the feeding behaviour traits of two populations of ducks (White Pekin and Muscovy). In addition to feed conversion ratio, six phenotypes were derived at the scale of the day and the meal and genetic parameters were estimated. Feeding rate in the Pekin population was twice as large as in the Muscovy population (19 g/min vs. 9 g/min). Feeding traits exhibited moderate (0.38) to high (0.67) heritabilities. A similar pattern of correlations could be observed between these traits in the two populations. Feed conversion ratio did not show any remarkable correlation with feeding traits in the Pekin line, except with daily feed intake, but was negatively correlated with the number of meals and meal feed intake in the Muscovy population (0.68). Further studies will be needed to decipher how these traits can be incorporated in breeding programs without impairing ducks' abilities to produce fatty liver.

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Animal genetics
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hal-03945910 , version 1 (18-01-2023)

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Hervé Chapuis, M Lague, Hélène Gilbert. Genetic parameters of feeding behaviour traits in parental lines of a mule duck. 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Jul 2022, Rotterdam (NL), Netherlands. ⟨hal-03945910⟩
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