Studies on viability of sustainable crossbred chicken for backyard farming
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2006-07
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G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand)
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Backyard poultry farming has been a traditional economic activity in rural areas and rural farmers are accustomed to rear nondescript poultry birds. Keeping the importance of backyard poultry farming (BYPF) for upliftment of rural people, crossing of indigenous and exotic breeds is must to exploit the economic traits of both types of breeds. Current study was conducted on various aspects of BYPF for crosses involving Aseel (A) × Rhode Island Red (RIR), Aseel (A) × Brown Cornish (BC), Kadaknath (K) × Brown Cornish (BC), Kadaknath (K) × Rhode Island Red (RIR) at nineteen villages of Udham singh nagar. Comparative evaluation for production traits as body weight gain and egg production was done among four cross-breds K x BC, A x BC, K x RIR and A x RIR under BYPF. The average body weight at 20 week of age were estimated as 1312.01,1745.27,1161.86 and 1502.36 g, and average annual egg production as 157.44, 140.45, 173.78 and 168.45 for crosses K x BC, A x BC, K x RIR and A x RIR respectively. On the basis of comparative evaluation A x BC was judged best for body weight gain, K x RIR was the best layer and A x RIR was evaluated as best dual purpose crossbred for back-yard poultry farming.
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