Productive and Reproductive Performance of Native Breeder Chicken Intensively Reared in Western Tamil Nadu
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Date
2016-09
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World's Poultry Congress
Abstract
A study was carried out to investigate the native
breeder (Aseel) chicken in Western Tamil Nadu
with respective to productive and reproductive
performance under intensive management system.
A total of 45 farms, 15 farms in each Western
district include Coimbatore, Erode and Tirupur
were selected by simple random sampling
through a semi- structured interview schedule.
The farms were classified into small (Upto
1500), medium (1501 – 3000) and large (above
3000) according to the farm size, with the average
capacity of 600, 2271 and 5027 birds respectively.
The mean age and body weight of native
breeder male and female at the time of initial
breeding were 191.72 ± 4.17 days and 2.57 ±
0.07 kg and 170.96 ± 1.92 days and 1.83 ± 0.05
kg respectively. The average feed consumption
during brooder (Upto 14 weeks) and grower (15
– 24 weeks) stages of native breeder chicken
were 4.40 ± 0.11 and 5.18 ± 0.18 kg. The daily
feed consumption of male and female parent
breeder (>25weeks) was 124.27 ± 2.34 and
117.59 ± 1.95 gram per day per bird respectively.
Flock mating was practiced by the majority
(75.56 per cent) of the farmers with the sex ratio
of 1:8 and the mean semen volume produced by
male parent kept in cages was 0.54 ± 0.05 ml.
The amount of feed intake to produce a dozen
egg and one kg egg mass in native breeder chicken
was 5.44 ± 0.16 and 9.10 ± 0.32 kg respectively.
The average egg weight and annual egg production
of native breeder female parent in the selected
district was 46.51 ± 0.91 gm and 101.83 ±
3.21 eggs per annum. The average number of settable
egg was 97.65 ± 4.62 and hatchability rate
per native breeder was 73.16 ± 1.05 per cent in
selected districts of Tamil Nadu.
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Veterinary Science, Poultry Science