The Poultry Research Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences is the main branch research institution on poultry questions and the selection center on creating home breeds, lines, crosses and populations of birds. The workers of our institute are engaged in working out new methods of improvement of highly productive lines, crosses and populations of poultry. We elaborate the systems of feeding, prophylaxis and treatment of mycotoxicoses, the ecologically clean technologies of poultry egg and meat production, egg incubation, the methods of avian diseases prophylaxis. The Poultry Research Institute preserves the home poultry gene-pool. We have the cryobank of genetic resources; we have worked out biotechnological methods, which give the possibility to renew the lost gene types of poultry using the cryopreserved material.
The Poultry Research Institute improves the valid norms and standards, considers the initial requirements for the poultry industry equipment, produces scarce preparations and materials for poultry farms in Ukraine .
The workers of our institute give private persons and specialist of enterprises consultations on actual poultry farming questions, such as the diagnostics and prophylaxis of avian diseases and feed toxicoses, the analyze of feeds, the decrease of reproductive qualities of birds, the problems of incubation of eggs and quality of youngster, technological aspects of raising and keeping of birds and so on.
Today the Poultry Research Institute presents:
- Department of genetics and selection.
- Laboratory of physiology and nutrition of birds.
- Laboratory of mycotoxicology.
- Laboratory of the technology of producing poultry products in specialized, farm and individual economies.
- Laboratory of birds’ reproduction.
- Department of poultry disease prophylaxis, which includes the laboratory of diagnosis and specific prophylaxis of avian diseases and the laboratory of veterinary biotechnology.
- Department of marketing, which includes the laboratory of information, advertisement, patent-license work and standardization and the laboratory of research investigations on questions of intellectual property and marketing innovations.