Indigenous naked neck chicken: a valuable genetic resource for Bangladesh

Sensory attributes and quality of meat in improved indigenous chicken fed on Prosopis juliflora pods in Kenya

“…Indigenous chickens (IC) have an advantage of being more adapted to local stressful conditions (Kingori et al, 2010) than exotic chicken. They are widely preferred by consumers because of their lean meat, more protein content, taste and pigmentation (Kingori et al, 2010;Fanatico et al, 2007;Horst, 1991), fetches higher price in the market compared to exotic hybrid birds (Islam and Nishibori, 2009) and is preferred by health-conscious consumers due to its low levels of cholesterol and fat (Jaturasitha et al, 2008).Despite high demand of IC products, the performance is low due to poor feeding among other challenges. Due to challenge in feed supply for the poultry sector, there has been introduction of unconventional feeds materials, such as Prosopis juliflora pods (Meseret et al, 2012), whose studies have proved it can be used to sustainably provide feed for the poultry subsector with remarkable performance (Al-Marzooqi et al, 2015).…”

Effect of breeding strategies to increase productivity of indigenous chicken in-situ in Bangladesh

“…The low productivity does not encourage farmers to increase the present level of poultry operation (Huque and Haque 1990;Barua et al, 1998;Islam, 2006). In contrast, improved exotic chickens produce high number of eggs and amount of meat while they are not adapted to the adverse environmental conditions, such as high temperature, disease and shortage of feed (Ali et al, 2000;Islam and Nishibori, 2009). The FAO (2010) suggested that the low input/output smallholder system would continue to exist in many parts of the developing world, sustainable progress in productivity of 2 -4 percent per year will be possible using local chickens.…”

Effect of Genotype on Morphometric Traits and Body Temperature of Three Genotypes of Chicken (Gallus Gallus Domesticus) Raised in the Humid Tropical Stressful Environment.

“…Birds thrive on residual grains in the yard and surrounding residence, kitchen wastes, insects and earthworm (Islam and Nishibori, 2009). Moreover, the productivity of birds under the rural production system is very low in terms of egg production, size of eggs, growth rate and survivability of chicks (Teketel, 1986), which may be in first time attributed to lack of improved poultry breeds, the presence of predators, the high incidence of diseases, poor management and bad quality of feeding by farmers (Alemu, 1987).…”

“…The Least squares (LS) mean of body weight, weight variation and daily body weight gain (W1, W12, W30, WG [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] and dWG [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] ) of birds used in this study were assigned in table 2. Growth parameters at 30 week of age of birds used was ranged between 929.41 and 1987.50 g for body weight, and between 2.53 and 6.71 daily body weight gain.…”