Disappearing Diversity Listen to MP3 Canada's commercial poultry are great birds.
Broilers have lots of meat, layers produce lots of eggs.
But the price for this is high. The gene pool for these birds is very small. So commercial breeders are reliant on private breeders and research stocks to maintain the gene pool. But these birds are disappearing. Dr. Mary Delany , assistant professor at the University of California, Davis, is the co-chair of the Avian Genetic Resources Task Force.