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POULTRY DOMINANT OFFERS A CHOICE OF COLOURED LAYER T he privately owned firm, DOMINANT CZ, offers a choice of coloured layer hybrid DOMINANT CZ programmes for egg production and cockerels festive meal. All of the parent stock programmes use auto sexing for easy segregation of day old hen and cockerel chicks. The strategy of the selection programme is to support the adaptability, flexibility and robustness in the bird for a variety of production conditions. DOMINANT CZ's programmes are more than 20 years old and have been used in more than 45 countries on four continents. DOMINANT CZ's birds are used as grandparents, parents 42 GULF AGRICULTURE and final hybrids in different production systems - for example in large cage based farms in Nigeria, Uganda, Kazakhstan and Ukraine and in ecologically sensitive production systems in Switzerland. Our programmes guarantee optimal productivity in small scale family farming systems in many European countries as well as in Africa and Asia countries in different production systems. The company aims to improve and produce from its own original layer programmes products that will perform in different management, feeding and environmental conditions anywhere in the world. The high flexibility and adaptability of our programmes provides health, productive birds. Regular testing of Dominant CZ's programmes under a variety conditions invariably produces positive results. Although our birds differ in their colour, key characteristics such as growth, feed consumption and egg production are similar. This is beneficial for certain breeder customers who wish to offer a variety of products to their customers. JANUARY FEBRUARY 2018