CHARACTERIZATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF NATIVE CHICKEN IN FOUR DISTRICTS (TUMAKURU, SHIVAMOGGA, DAVANAGERE AND CHITHRADURGA) OF BENGALURU DIVISION OF KARNATAKA STATE
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2022
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KARNATAKA VETERINARY, ANIMAL AND FISHERIES SCIENCES UNIVERSITY, BIDAR-585 226
Abstract
A study was carried out to characterize indigenous chicken from four Districts of
Bengaluru Division of Karnataka State viz., Tumakuru, Chithradurga, Shivamogga and
Davanagere and to evaluate production performance under farm conditions. Survey results
revealed that the average flock size, marketing age, egg production per year, hatchability
and fertility per cent were 19.77, 9.02 months, 53.76, 56.9 and 44.78, respectively.
Morphological characteristics of indigenous chicken revealed that the highest per cent of
plumage color and pattern was multicolor (38.34 %) and patchy pattern. The predominant
skin and shank colour observed was yellow, eye colour was brown and majority of the
birds had wattles under field and farm conditions in Bengaluru division. A significant
(P˂0.05) difference could be observed in the body weight, feed consumption and FCR
between districts with better FCR in birds from Chithradurga followed by Davanagere,
Tumakuru and Shivamogga. Male birds had significantly (P˂0.05) higher morphometric
measurements as compared to the female counterparts in all the districts studied. The
dressing per cent in male and female indigenous birds were 67.15±1.25 and 64.07±0.76,
respectively and per cent heart, liver and gizzard ranged from 0.48 to 0.64, 2.61 to 2.79
and 2.89 to 3.54, respectively. The average HHEP, average feed efficiency per dozen of
eggs under farm condition at 52nd week was 47.54 ±0.23 and 4.05±0.03, respectively. The
age at sexual maturity and body weight at sexual maturity was 171±0.49 days and
1045±0.45 g. The mean chick mortality per cent in all the four Districts was 7.41 per cent
and birds vaccinated against NDV has better titre values. Based on various parameters
assessed indigenous chicken germplasm from Chithradurga District of Bengaluru division
was found to be superior compared to that of the other three districts studied.