INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP INDICES OF VELVET ANTLER PRODUCTION OF MARALS FOR THE PERIOD OF THEIR ECONOMIC USE

Maral breeding is a promising direction of animal hus-bandry in the Altai Region and Republic Altai. Breed-ing highly productive maral stags based on proper organization work which not possible without an accurate evaluation individual group indices velvet antler weight. In this regard, research goal to study produc-tion marals for period their economic use depend-ing age. It was found that weight increased by 6.3 kg over entire period, there decreasing tendency index thir-teen-year-old 800 g. stag herd 2021, born 2008 with 18.8 became record holder. The main criteria culling were decreased production fatness; age those animals from eleven fourteen years. it thirteen-year-old could consistently produce high-weight antlers dur-ing use. To improve quali-tative composition marals, at time, neces-sary evaluate select high-productive six twelve years old individually dynamics cull low-productive ones regardless