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The Poultry Industry in the $21^{st}$ Century - Challenges and Opportunities

  • Waldrop, P.W.;Kwon, Y.M.
    • Korean Journal of Poultry Science
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.33-36
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    • 2004

  • Predicting the future is at once both an opportunity and a challenge. Predicting what changes will take place in the poultry industry over the next century is certainly an opportunity to review the past and use this as a means of predicting the future.(omitted)

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DNA Fingerprinting in Poultry Breeding and Genetic Analysis (DNA 지문을 이용한 가금의 유전분석과 개량)

  • 여정수
    • Korean Journal of Poultry Science
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.97-104
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    • 1995

  • Recently, DNA fingerprinting has been utilized as the most powerful tool for genetic analysis and improvement of poultry. This technique enables us to solve several problems of poultry breeding ; traits of low heritability, difficulty in keeping the performance records, measuring in late of life, and sex limited traits. Application of DNA fingerprinting is chiefly focused to individual and population identification, evolution force, quantitative trait marker, introgression of new gene, and prediction of heterosis. Thus, research work on DNA fingerprinting will he accelerated to analyze genetic components exactly and improve the performance of poultry.

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Sales Strategies for Eggs and Special Brand Eggs in Japan I. Meaning of Special Brand Egg Production to Poultry Farm Management and Its Economics (일본의 계란 판매전략과 특수란 I.특수란 생산의 경영적 의의와 경제성)

  • 장경만
    • Korean Journal of Poultry Science
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.35-42
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    • 1999

  • According to the importance(production ratio) of special brand eggs, poultry farma can be classified into four types(Types I to IV). A close relation can be observed between these types and farm scale. Special brand eggs used to be the speciality of small-scale, suburban poultry farms. Recently, however, the production of these eggs has been adopted by medium and large farms, too, and is increasing throughout Japan. In particular, small-scale farms specializing in these eggs have attained a high profit and take a characteristic management from as opposed to large-scale poultry farming that adopts the \"small profit and quick returns\" strategy. Because of this, the meaning of special brand egg production to farm management differs according to farm scale. For small poultry farmers, it means securing a high profitability and for medium and large producers, improving the corporate image or meeting the needs for assortment of retailers.

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