Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/545/en

The further development of domestic poultry is, in the first instance, a genetic question: what inherited predisposition from the past must be taken up again? Above all, however, it is a question of epigenetics — of breeding not only on the basis of acquired characteristics, but of characteristics yet to be acquired. What conditions, directed toward this latter aim, must be created in the shaping of the farm organism — with respect to keeping, the farm's own feed base, human care and attention — so that the organismic wholeness may imprint itself epigenetically upon the life organisation and physical organisation of the animals?