PHENOTYPIC CHARACTERIZATION AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF NATIVE CHICKEN VARIETY MAINTAINED AT COLLEGE OF POULTRY PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT, HOSUR
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2021
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TANUVAS, CHENNAI
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A biological experiment was conducted in Poultry Farm Complex, Department of Poultry Science, Veterinary College and Research Institute, Namakkal to study the phenotypic characterization and performance of assessment of Native chicken variety maintained at College of Poultry Production and Management (CPPM), Hosur.
A sum of 540 male and 540 female day old chicks (total 1080 chicks) of the Native chicken variety were received from CPPM, Hosur and were individually weighed, wing banded and distributed randomly into three replicates for each sex. Each replicate had 180 chicks of either sex and were reared up to 20 weeks of age under deep litter system. The growth performance from 0 to 20th week of age, carcass characteristics at 12th and 16th week of age, morphologic and morphometric characteristics at 20th week of age were studied during the period from 0-20 weeks of age.