Articles, fact sheets and Flyers
Flyer for Local Pig Breeders
Highlighting goals for local pig breeders: preserving genetic diversity, improving meat quality,
and ensuring reliable pedigree tracking through controlled breeding practices.
Vision of Those Involved in the Conservation
of Local Breeds of Pigs and Chickens
Insights from European stakeholders on local pig and chicken breed conservation, highlighting strong support for selective breeding. Emphasising the need for public support.
GENE EDITING: A Potential Solution for Dual-Purpose Chicken Breeding
For many years, the poultry industry has faced an ethical dilemma: what to do with male chicks from layer breeds? To explore this challenge, researchers in the GEroNIMO project ran a computer-based simulation to examine how gene editing might help improve dual-purpose chickens.
Breed smarter, Choose better!
New tools for more accurate, practical and accessible animal breeding
From Genome to Public
Innovations in livestock breeding are directly related to policy issues. This is partly due to the potential role that these innovations can play in addressing societal challenges in the agri-food sector, and partly because new technologies raise questions that require governance.
Local Breeds, Future Strength!
How local breeds can support
climate-resilient animal farming
Different Breeding Strategies
Selection models traditionally rely on phenotypic and pedigree data, and increasingly more on genomic data since the advent of genomic selection. Genomic selection relaxes the need of measuring phenotypes on selection candidates themselves, which leads to selection at young age,reducing generation intervals.