Modern approaches to the assessment of breeding qualities of a geese

A promising direction, providing an increase in poultry production for slaughter and expanding its assortment, is the production of meat of waterfowl, in particular, geese. An integral part of the general technological process for the production of poultry products is breeding with poultry. An important direction in improving breeding, preserving the gene pool of valuable, highly productive, and also rare and endangered breeds of farm birds can be an objective assessment of the breeding value bred in the country of farm birds. When scoring geese of heavy, medium and light types up to 52 weeks of age and older, they are estimated by live weight and safety up to 9 (10)-weekly age, by the egg production of mothers for the first year of use and the percentage of hatching. Older than 52 weeks old - in terms of their own productivity indicators: live weight and preservation up to 9 (10)-weekly age, egg production in the first cycle and percentage of young growth. For each type, the minimum requirements for the assessment class of the main and additional features are determined. When assessing the main characteristics characterizing the breeding value of geese, one should use information materials from domestic and foreign companies operating in the domestic market, as well as generalized and systematized data of modern literature for the last 3-4 years. The problem of the interaction of the bird organism (genotype) with the environment (phenotype) is of exceptional importance and actually serves as a criterion for the realization of the genetic potential of the bird. The main motive reasons for the dynamic development of poultry farming at the present stage are the following in rank order: advances in genetics, resource-saving technologies, equipment, high veterinary protection of poultry and labor organization. For economically feasible production of goose breeding products, it is necessary to develop methodological approaches for the procedure and conditions for assessing the breeding value of poultry, further improve poultry and develop new highly productive breeds and lines of geese that will ensure competitiveness of farms in the domestic and foreign markets.