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• The egg production of hungarian speckled hen and speckled transylvanian naked neck hen

  11-15

  Ákos Benk

  Lajos Vidács

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  93

  Our Faculty has been dealing with the cross-breeding of Hungarian speckled hen to maintain the breed since 1977. We keep two breeds of the Hungarian speckled hen, the bare-neck variant and the feathered-neck type on the pilot farm. Because of the spread of intensive poultry keeping the population of these breeds has become endangered. Beside the gene preservation, we endeavour to find the best way for the production-purpose
  utilisation of the speckled hen stock. We examined the egg production of these breeds.

• The analysing of value measuring features of Hungarian speckled hen

  17-23

  Ákos Benk

  Lajos Vidács

  Ágnes Baginé Hunyadi

  Imre Mucsi

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  53

  Our College has been dealing with the crossbreeding of two Hungarian speckled hen breeds, the bare-neck and the featheredneck, to maintain the breeds since 1977. Apart from the gene preservation, we endeavour to find the best way for the production-purpose utilisation of the speckled hen stock. On the basis of our experiments the laying hens can be used in small-scale egg production. As for meat production, these pure-breds cannot compete with the various types of the colour-feathered hybrid constructions available in Hungary. On the basis of the results of the cross-breeding with cock-lines of various hybrid types for direct production purposes we can conclude that the Hungarian speckled hen is suitable as a mother line to produce meat-type chickens in alternative breeding systems.