The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
01/Jun/2002
Millor Fernandes do Rosário, Vicente José Maria Savino, Antonio Augusto Domingos Coelho, Marco Aurélio Neves da Silva, Edmilson Martins
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-35982002000600010
Hematocrit is an indirect method used to monitor ascites, which might be used also on body weight and reproductive traits evalution in broiler chickens. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the micro-hematocrit technique on body weight and reproductive traits (fertility, hatchability of fertile eggs and overall hatchability) possibiliting its aplication by poultry genetic breeding programs. Two contrasting groups were established based on phenotypic selection from 630 males and females of 18 genotypes to hematocrit characteristic. This work used […]
Keywords: animal breeding; ascites; erythrocyte; genotype