To deal with global warming, the Departmental Sheep Breeding Center of Ordiarp (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) wishes to take part in a European project on phenotyping.
It's about using genomics to select better animals for each system, explains
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“It will be interesting to see how genetics can help pass this milestone, keeping production capital while trying to produce milk as cheaply as possible,” commented Claude Soulas, director of the center.
A deficit of 54,000 euros
Until now, breeders had "applied to collectively manufacturing valuable genetics which is at the forefront and which has passed to genomic selection", analyzed the leader.
According to the forecasts of the general assembly, the cost of these techniques will however generate a deficit of 54,000 euros in 2022. The breeders therefore expect a lot from this vast project promising in particular to make the ewes more resistant to climatic hazards.
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