Completed projects

Development of organical animal breeding based on indigenous species

Project code: AGR_PIAC_13-1-2013-0031
Name of beneficiary: LAB-NYÚL Ltd. (leader of consortium)
Kaposvár University
Research Centre for Farm Animal Gene Conservation
V-95 Ltd.
Period of implementation: 2013.12.01.-2016.11.30.
Total eligible project costs: 844,231,000 HUF
Awarded funding: 672,355,570 HUF
Funding intensity: 79.64%
Source: NRDI Fund

Project summary:

With Lab-Nyúl Ltd. as the leader of the consortium of Research Centre for Farm Animal Gene Conservation, Kaposvár University and V-95 Ltd. a R&D project has been carried out. The goal was to involve and put back in to production some of the Hungarian indigenous species of poultry, rabbit and fish, also for securely maintaining them. The project had locations nation-wide, and was funded by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office with 672,355,570 HUF.
We worked for developing new genotypes of poultry and rabbit with related technologies, that are capable of semi-intensive farming so that a special quality product can be produced in controlled or qualified organic farms. During the 3 years of implemention we examined the cross-breedings of Hungarian indigenous hens and Hungarian hybrids and the cross-breedings of two types of Hungarian turkey breeds and hybrids. Our research was expanded to the cross-breedings of Hungarian Giant and medium-size white rabbits, the selection to body fat with the help of CT and some ethological inspections. In the project we also examined pike-perch, Volga pikeperch and these hybrids. A genetic typing database was introduced by examining the patterns of the caudal fins. Stress physiology and ethology researches were carried out, and a test fishkeeping system was implemented.