We can conclude that the supplemental lighting method will result in an earlier laying peak of the geese in the breeding season and higher egg production.
A slightly higher egg production and better feed conversion ratio were observed in the control group, which might be due to the high feed intake of hens compared to the potato meal-fed hens.
"ensnared by nature the pregnant women is plant and animal … an incubator, a conscious and free individual who has become life's passive instrument … not so much mothers… as fertile organisms, like fowls with high egg production" (513).
Thus, ducks with a high egg production rate were challenged with BYDV.
However, it does explain why high egg production leads to an increased potential for incubation behaviour.
It has a high egg production rate and incubation behaviour in this breed is practically absent [ 5].
This may be semantics, since as explained, the onset of incubation behaviour is not compatible with high egg production [ 1].
More importantly, ablation of a distinct group of somatic cells around GSCs leads to higher egg production.
Egg production is primarily sensitive to food supply (e.g. Weithoff, 2007), but a high egg production rate does not necessarily translate to a high population growth rate.
In our studies, we found that adults from the high larval food regime had greater body mass and higher egg production than those from the restricted food regime.
