In the Russian Federation, pheasants with increased survival rates have begun to be raised

Researchers at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Fisheries of the Moscow State University of Technology and Management named after K.G. Razumovsky have begun to create a method of mass breeding of pheasants for farms. The first offspring of birds with an increased survival rate was obtained industrially in the laboratories of the university.

"Our project is aimed at developing a simplified technology for growing and incubating pheasants, designed for farms. Additionally, the faculty's laboratories are developing effective feed formulations with the inclusion of various functional components such as probiotics, amino acids and trace elements. It is well known that birds need to be given preventive antibiotics to protect them from infections, and we are already testing a new domestic drug that we are going to vaccinate our offspring with. The pheasants have hatched safely and are feeling well, which will allow for further research and preventive vaccination," Nikita Kochetkov, a junior researcher at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Fisheries, Candidate of Biological Sciences, told Izvestia.

The university's researchers analyze the effects of feed components and pharmacological substances on the biochemical composition of pheasant blood, tissue histology, monitor the embryonic development and microbiota of birds, and study DNA and RNA markers of their immune response. In the future, it is planned to start genetic studies of the offspring obtained. Currently, the research population numbers 150 pheasants.

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