ORIGINAL PAPER
Economic weights for litter size and fur coat traits
of arctic fox in Poland
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Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences,
Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding,
Kożuchowska 7, 51-631 Wrocław, Poland
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MTT Agrifood Research, Finland, Animal Production Research,
31600 Jokioinen, Finland
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Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Institute of Animal Breeding,
Chełmońskiego 38c, 51-630 Wrocław, Poland
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State School of Higher Education, Institute of Agriculture,
Mickiewicza 5, 64-100 Leszno, Poland
Publication date: 2007-02-02
Corresponding author
H. Wierzbicki
Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences,
Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding,
Kożuchowska 7, 51-631 Wrocław, Poland
J. Anim. Feed Sci. 2007;16(1):140-152
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ABSTRACT
Economic and productive data from Polish arctic fox farming were used to develop a bioeconomic deterministic model simulating an average fox farm. The model was used to estimate
economic weights for 4 economically important traits: body size - BS, fur quality - FQ, colour type
- CP and litter size - LS. A 10-year investment period and two alternative discount rates: 0 and 6%
were assumed when computing the number of discounted expressions (NDE). Marginal economic
values (MEV) were estimated per one female purchased. Highest MEV were derived for LS (88.304
PLN), followed by FQ (86.548 PLN) and BS (39.024 PLN). Much lower MEV (10 times lower than
for BS and 20 times lower than for LS and FQ) was estimated for CT (3.944 PLN). The relative
economic weights derived for the alternative of 0% interest rate per year were 0.48 for LS, 0.15 for
BS, 0.35 for FQ and 0.02 for CT, and were comparable to those estimated for the situation of 6%
interest rate per year (0.46, 0.15, 0.36 and 0.03, respectively).
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