Hy-Line W-36
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LAYER STRAINS · HY-LINE INTERNATIONAL
A white-egg layer known for feed efficiency. Smaller body size means less feed spent on maintaining the hen rather than making eggs.
Best for
White-egg markets, and anyone optimising feed cost per egg.
What it is called, and how common it is
Asked for in the mandi as
W36 · safaid anda wali murghi
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At a glance
- Egg colour
- White
- Positioning
- Feed efficiency, small body size
- Cycle
- Commonly run to 72+ weeks
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Outstanding feed efficiency — a smaller hen eats less to stay alive
- Well suited to cage systems
Trade-offs
- White eggs, which not every Pakistani market pays the same for
- Smaller bird means lower cull value at the end of the cycle
In Pakistan
Most Pakistani farm-gate egg trade is in white eggs, which makes W-36 and similar white layers commercially relevant here in a way they are not in brown-egg markets.
Other layer strains
Sources
- Comparison of performance, meat quality and profitability of Cobb, Hubbard and Ross broiler strains
- Comparative growth and meat yield of Arbor Acres, Cobb 500 and Lohmann broiler strains
- Laying characteristics and egg geometry of four varieties of indigenous Aseel chicken in Pakistan
- Poultry Research Institute, Punjab — conservation and improvement of poultry breeds
- ZTBL — financing for Golden/Misri chicken poultry farming
- Comparative performance of Naked Neck, Black Australorp and their crossbreds