Assessment of the Economic Profitability of Fattening Selected Chicken Genotypes in an Organic Farm

• Published in: Agriculture (Basel) Vol. 14; no. 1; p. 10
• Main Authors: Obremski, Kazimierz, Tyburski, Józef, Wojtacha, Paweł, Sosnówka-Czajka, Ewa, Skomorucha, Iwona, Pomianowski, Janusz, Parowicz, Paweł
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.01.2024
• Subjects: Age composition; Ammonia; Birds; Body weight; broiler production; Carbon dioxide; Chickens; Chronology; conventional farming; Conversion ratio; Costs (Law); economic efficiency; Economics; Farming; Farms; Feed conversion; Feeds; Genotype; Genotypes; Humidity; Hybrids; Microclimate; Natural & organic foods; Nutrition; Organic farming; Outdoors; Population distribution; Poultry; Production costs; Profitability; Proteins; State finance; Variance analysis; Willingness to pay; Poland; Rhode Island; United Kingdom; United States > US

The aim of this study was to evaluate whether production costs can be reduced and whether the profitability of organic chicken fattening can be increased by selecting the appropriate genotypes. Rhode Island Red (K-11) and Sussex (S-66) conservative chicken genotypes, as well as modern chicken genoty...