Market share: 1.7percentnt of broilers slaughtered last year.
c) Kilos of broiler chicken sold per person in the different counties and municipalities in 2000 and 2001, provided by the company that has the 85% market share of the chicken broiler meat; PRIOR, Norway [ 23]. d) Proportion of people that receive treated drinking water in the counties and municipalities based on permanent addresses recorded in the Registry of Norwegian Waterworks per 2001 ([ 24].
The fairly large percentage of SVs shared in broilers can be interpreted as being due to the effects of selection during line development by commercial companies and is consistent with the results of recent SNP genotyping [ 31], but it might be over-estimated in our study due to the difference in RRL construction.
The relatively close proximity of broilers and BELs in the PCA plot is related to their shared ancestry as these breeds were originally established by crossing the European and Asian breeds [ 25- 27].
Pest control (Category 3), education (Category 5) and operational hygiene (Category 10) had a similar share of total expenses for both the broiler and the hatching egg producers, each constituting about 6-106-10%total biosecurity expenses.
For example, the two companies Aviagen and Cobb, have a market share of more than 85% of the commercial broilers produced in the EU and use their global network of distributors to serve almost all European countries [ 21].
A large proportion of broilers suffer from leg problems.
Today Sussex county is a national centre for the production of broilers (young chickens).
Not only do commercial flocks share a limited gene pool, but some studies have suggested the industry's vise-like focus on breast meat, in the case of broilers and turkeys, and eggs, in the case of hens, suppresses the birds' immune systems, a theory known as resource allocation.
Southbend was an old brand of broilers, known for declining quality.
These results imply that feeding high levels of DLP in broiler diets may apply negative impact on humoral immunity of broilers.
