HEALTH STATE OF THE BABAT GREY LANDES AND BABAT HUNGARIAN UPGRADED GOOSE STOCKS AND SOME REPRODUCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BREEDER STOCKS

''Babat'' Grey Landes and ''Babat'' Hungarian Upgraded goose stocks we re examined on the goose farm of the Goose Breeding Research Station ( University of Agricultural Sciences, Godollo) at Babatpuszta. The firs t laying cycle of egg production of the stocks was examined in spring in 1995. The rate of mortality was registered and autopsy was made fro m the dead geese of laying and growing stocks. The Grey Landes breed b egan the egg production earlier, than the Hungarian, but the total egg and gosling production was higher in Hungarian breed. Egg production was 47.3/layer and 42.4/layer, egg fertility 85.5% and 83.3%, and day- old gosling production 33.5 and 29.6 goslings per layer in Hungarian a nd Grey Landes, respectively. The mortality of geese in the stock was about 1.8% per month in laying stock during laying period and afterwar ds during the resting period. The mortality was higher in the first an d last months of production than at other times, especially in the Gre y Landes breed. In the first month 80% of the mortality was caused by disorders of the reproductive organs. In the middle and last month of production the mortality was caused by metabolic disorders. At the res ting period in July about 3% mortality was caused by vaccination again st fowl cholera.In growing stock which was settled 4 times in April an d May the monthly mortality was only 0.5 per cent, inspite of the 3% m ortality caused by Pasteurella anatipestifer in one settling in two we eks ages.