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The livestock breeding sector includes 26 dairy breeding plants and farms, a Biotechnology Transplantation Center, seven pig-breeding farms, four fur-breeding farms, one fish-breeding farm, four horse-breeding farms, the Nevskoye State Breeding Enterprise, AOZT Lenigradskoye, and the Aschar Association.
The Leningrad Region is a national leader in animal breeding. Regional breeders have created a large stock of cattle, pigs, and poultry with some of the higest genetic potential in Russia.
The Leningrad Region farms have two dairy breeds, black and tabby (91 percent) and Irish (18 percent). All of the black and tabby animals and 91 percent of the Irish are straight-bred. There is a new high-productive type of black and white animals with an average milk yield of 6,855 kg. The milk contains 3.8 percent of fat and 3.1 percent of protein.
Two leading poultry breeding plants, the Bolshevik Meat Chicken Plant and the Nagorny Egg Chicken State Enterprise, are located in the Leningrad Region. Bolshevik works with a Broiler 61 four-line cross, improved by imported crosses from the Scotland-based Ross Company and the Dutch-based Juribreed. Nagorny works with the Russian Zarya cross and a cross from the German-based Lomann Company, which has large eggs and a high egg yield of 280,290.
Horses are bred at the Zvezdochka Horse Farm Luga State Stable and the farms of the St. Petersburg State Agrarian University and the Russko-Vysotskoye Pultry Plant. The horse breeds include Oryol Trotter, Trakeninskaya, Toriiskaya, Soviet Draught Horse, and Latvian Draught Horse. |
