Body-weight variation as a potential indirect indicator of abdominal fat weight with relevance to laying rate in 90-week-old laying hens
Alexandre Hubert, Nicolas Bedere, Fabien Degalez, Coralie Allain, Lorry Becot, Quentin Berger, Thierry Burlot, Mathieu Emily, Alexandre Ferry, Laetitia Lagoutte, Bénédicte Lebez, Marie-Pierre Sanchez, Thierry Tribout, Frédérique Pitel, Tatiana Zerjal, Sophie Allais, Sandrine Lagarrigue · 2026
Read Body-weight variation as a potential indirect indicator of abdominal fat weight with relevance to laying rate in 90-week-old laying hens by Alexandre Hubert, Nicolas Bedere, Fabien Degalez, Coralie Allain, Lorry Becot, Quentin Berger, Thierry Burlot, Mathieu Emily, Alexandre Ferry, Laetitia Lagoutte, Bénédicte Lebez, Marie-Pierre Sanchez, Thierry Tribout, Frédérique Pitel, Tatiana Zerjal, Sophie Allais, Sandrine Lagarrigue (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13634512.txt.
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Alexandre Hubert and co-authors test whether shifts in body weight can stand in for belly fat in old laying hens, in a study from 2026. Belly fat at late age ties to metabolic thrift and late egg flow, yet its true weight can be read only by kill and cut. Weight shift, by clash, needs no kill and can be read on the live bird at any age.
Gene links tie belly fat tightly to weight shift from week thirty to week seventy and to week ninety. The late shift also ties to late lay pace. Gene hunts flag fresh zones for the shift traits, apart from known fat zones. The authors back the two shifts as twin stand ins for fat, once test flocks prove their forecast worth.
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| CREATOR | Alexandre Hubert, Nicolas Bedere, Fabien Degalez, Coralie Allain, Lorry Becot, Quentin Berger, Thierry Burlot, Mathieu Emily, Alexandre Ferry, Laetitia Lagoutte, Bénédicte Lebez, Marie-Pierre Sanchez, Thierry Tribout, Frédérique Pitel, Tatiana Zerjal, Sophie Allais, Sandrine Lagarrigue |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 69 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |