Features of the adaptation of the turkeys' body in a poultry farm

Abstract

The work is devoted to the study of adaptive features in the Hybrid Converter novo turkey cross in a poultry farm located in the south of the Tyumen region. The aim of the work was to investigate the adaptive abilities of the body of turkeys in a poultry farm in the Tyumen region. Research work was carried out at the Department of Anatomy and Physiology of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education of the State Agrarian University of the Northern Trans-Urals and in the conditions of the poultry farm LLC "Absolut-Agro". The object of the study was turkeys of different ages and genders of the Hybrid Converter novo cross. The studies were carried out using generally accepted methods to study the age-related dynamics of absolute mass, body temperature, respiratory rate, and the adaptation coefficient was calculated. Physiological indicators of temperature, respiratory rate were measured in 72 heads of broiler turkeys at the age of 21 days, 42, 64, 82, 105 and 126 ays. Analyzing the obtained data, we can say that in male turkeys, the adaptation process proceeds more evenly and quickly after the manifestation of sexual demorphism, as indicated by a uniform increase in absolute weight, a slight deviation from the actual weight from the normative one and a gradual decrease in the adaptation coefficient from 1.032 at the age of 42 days to 0.987 at the age of 126 days. In females, the adaptive abilities of the body are weaker, as indicated by sharp fluctuations in the actual weight from the normative values, as well as a sharp increase in the adaptation coefficient at 42 and 82 days.