Activity test on young pheasants.docVIP

J.-P. BOYER J.-M. MELIN Station de Recherches avicoles, Centre de Recherches de Tours, I. N. R. A., Nouzilly B. P. 1, 37380 Monnaie Activity tests on young pheasants show a strong genetic component for this trait. view of a cynegetic repopulation, we have examined the activity of young pheasants, three/four days old by the mean of an open-field test. In june 1970 we have selected 4o dams and io sires, half of them were classified as active (A) or inactive (I) ones, from individual tests. The offspring of the two types has been brooded separately from the time of hatching and each young