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. 2025 Jun;104(6):105099.
doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2025.105099. Epub 2025 Mar 25.

Reproductive characteristics and methods to improve reproductive performance in goose production: A systematic review

Leyan Yan  1 , Jie Liu  1 , Rong Chen  1 , Mingming Lei  1 , Binbin Guo  1 , Zhe Chen  1 , Zichun Dai  1 , Huanxi Zhu  2
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Reproductive characteristics and methods to improve reproductive performance in goose production: A systematic review

Leyan Yan et al. Poult Sci. 2025 Jun.

Abstract

In the past two decades, the high demand of and significance of poultry meat have promoted the development of the goose industry. Despite the continuous expansion of the goose breeding scale and the generation of large economic benefits by the goose industry, low reproductive efficiency remains a barrier to limit vigorous development of the goose industry. Poor reproductive efficiency can be attributed to breeding seasonality, strong broody behavior, and poor semen quality. Based on the reproductive endocrine regulation mechanism of geese, an overview of past studies that have developed various methods to achieve a significant improvement in goose reproductive performance including physical facilities for artificial illumination control and dietary nutrition manipulation to improve breeder reproductivity, and artificial incubation equipment and technology for better hatchability. The most recent advances utilize immunoneutralization to regulate critical hormones involved in goose reproduction. This review provides new information for industry and academic studies of goose breeding.

Keywords: Broody behavior; Goose; Light; Reproduction; Seasonal breeding.

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Disclosures We declare that we have no financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that can inappropriately influence our work. There is no professional or other personal interest of any nature or kind in any product, service or company that could be construed as influencing the content of this paper.

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