Phenotypic Characterization of Indigenous Free Range Chickens in Kalomo, Zambia

doi:10.36899/japs.2023.3.0658

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“…For the purpose of characterization, this study followed the recommendation of Liswaniso et al (2023) and selected only birds that were above 5 months of age. The chickens were raised in a traditional extensive management system, with access to scavenging for their nutritional requirements and basic housing.…”

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“…The parameters were body length (BL), keel length (KL), thigh length (TL), shank length (SL) shank circumference (SC), chest circumference (CC) and corpus length (CL). The above-mentioned parameters were recorded according to the formula as suggested by (Liswaniso et al, 2023). The data was collected using a computer and stored in MS Excel 2013.…”

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“…The chicken has less growth rate and low egg production is known as indigenous chicken (Kindji and Tamiru, 2021). However, these chicken breeds are highly disease resistance and can grow under harsh environment and poor nutritional conditions with higher temperature as compared with broiler and other commercial breeds (Liswaniso et al, 2023). However, commercial level poultry industry has been extended with rapid during recent years with highly egg and meat producing birds have been introduced for boosting the egg and meat production, but still backyards poultry playing a major role for egg production in various countries of the world Laenoi et al, 2015;Mtilani et al, 2012).…”

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Phenotypic Characterization of Indigenous Backyard Poultry Birds in Tando Allahayar, Pakistan

Kaleri,

Kalhoro

et al. 2023

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This study was carried out in Tando Allahyar district of Sindh, Pakistan to observe the phenotypic characterization of indigenous backyard poultry birds in Tando Allahyar. For this purpose, total 470 birds with 240 male and 230 females were brought under the study. Their phenotypic characteristics were collected thorough observing by the researchers from different UCs of district Tando Allahyar. The data regarding quantitative traits were observed using the measuring tap mentioned in the (FAO) manual. The findings of our study 86.69% out of the 470 birds recorded with normal feather pattern. The common color of shank was found 27.71% white with 89.11% pea comb. The result for body weight revealed that significantly higher body weight was recorded in male birds as compared with female 2425±27 and 1482±11, respectively. The result for overall average body weight was revealed in our study 20.37±25.76 gram. In our study strong positive and significant correlation was observed among the average body weight and linear body measurement of poultry birds. We have used two principal components in our study with (PCI-55.21% and 12.13% that revealed total variability the together 67.11%. In this study 1 st component was recorded 57.32% of variance showed highly significant loading to overall body measurements excluding shank circumferences result. It is concluded that PCI is a useful selection standard for improving the body weight of indigenous backyard poultry birds. In this study many variations observed showed that huge potential of birds have for improvement by selection and better breeding strategies.

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Phenotypic Characterization of Indigenous Backyard Poultry Birds in Tando Allahayar, Pakistan

Kaleri,

Kalhoro

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Zambian indigenous chicken genetic resources: phenotypic characteristics and their production systems among small-scale farmers

Liswaniso,

Mwambilwa,

Odubote

et al. 2024

Front. Vet. Sci.

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IntroductionIndigenous chickens are very important to households for income and protein. However, their performance is usually poor, especially under small-scale farmer management, despite their potential to perform better. The performance of these chickens can be improved by selective breeding. However, for this to be a success, there is a need to understand the phenotypic and production characteristics of these chickens fully. Hence, this study aimed to characterize the phenotypes of these chickens and their production system among small-scale farmers.MethodA structured questionnaire was administered to 177 small-scale farmers. A total of 538 chickens whose mean weight was 1.66 kg were individually phenotyped in Luapula, Muchinga, and Northern provinces of Zambia.ResultsOwnership of the indigenous chickens was dominated by females (65.37%), with most (64.31%) having attained primary education. Most housed their chickens in family houses (42.03%). All the farmers let their chickens scavenge for their feed, with 45.58% of them providing basic supplementation. Most (84.10%) farmers bought their breed stock from within their community and had a mean flock size of 12.5 chickens/household, which they mostly (78.09%) kept as free-range. The majority (77.39%) practiced culling, with low productivity being the most common reason for culling (84.45%). Only 59.01% of farmers practiced selective breeding, while 86.22% practiced uncontrolled mating. The age at first mating for cocks and hens was 6.8 months and 6.34 months, respectively, with 6.73 months being the age at first egg. It takes 15.43 days to reach a mean clutch size of 13 eggs. The hatchability and mortality at 8 weeks were 83.44% and 67.57%, respectively. All chickens were sold as live chickens, and the majority (51.59%) of the farmers sold their chickens within the community at 7.23 months. Diseases and predators were the most common challenges affecting farmers in the study area. Consultations with veterinarians, vaccinations, and deworming were uncommon while treating sick chickens mostly using ethnoveterinary medicines was common. The most common qualitative traits were brown (27.88%) and mixed (26.77%) plumage color, white skins (91.45%) and shanks (48.70%), single comb type (91.08%), red earlobe (55.76%), and orange eyes (78.07%). All linear body measurements positively and significantly correlated with the body weight averaging 1.66kgs, an indicator that selection for any of them would result in a corresponding increase in body weight. Principal Component Analysis extracted two components with 69.38% of the total variation.DiscussionThe diversity in phenotypes of these chickens and their production systems indicate huge potential for improvement by implementing breeding programs.

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Economic Importance of Backyard Poultry in Taluka Jhando Mari, District Tando Allahyar, Sindh

Kaleri,

Khoso,

Mangi

et al. 2023

MJZ

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Present study was carried out to observe the economic importance of backyard poultry birds in rural areas of Taluka Jhando Mari district Tando Allahyar during the 2022. Objective: To determine the profitability of backyard poultry production in rural areas of Tando Allahyar. Methods: Our study was divided into two different parts (i) primary and (ii) secondary part. Primary category was based on collection of data by interview from respondents by filling questionnaire. Results: The results revealed that 70% of household poultry kept by female and 30% were males. The cost function was estimated using the OLS method. The model of study suggested that price of egg and price of per bird were recorded statistically significant whereas per bird cost was observed non-significant statistically. It was concluded that high egg producing poultry breeds such RIR, Playmouth, White leghorn must be raised in order to increase the production of household backyard poultry birds. Conclusions: It is also concluded that improvement in rural poultry germplasm will be highly effective in rural poultry production system in future and will be major business for completing the food security and nutritional diet in middle class population of our country. Government of Sindh should also encourage private sector poultry by providing loan and poultry feed on cheapest prices to improve the production of backyard poultry farmers and their livelihood.

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Phenotypic Characterization of Indigenous Free Range Chickens in Kalomo, Zambia

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Phenotypic Characterization of Indigenous Backyard Poultry Birds in Tando Allahayar, Pakistan

Phenotypic Characterization of Indigenous Backyard Poultry Birds in Tando Allahayar, Pakistan

Zambian indigenous chicken genetic resources: phenotypic characteristics and their production systems among small-scale farmers

Economic Importance of Backyard Poultry in Taluka Jhando Mari, District Tando Allahyar, Sindh

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