Studies on morphological and performance traits of feathered shank local hill fowl
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2009-06
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G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand)
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The present study was conducted to evaluate the morphological and performance traits of feathered shank local hill fowl.” The average body weight at day old, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20 weeks of age were 30.84±0.18, 43.81±0.23, 51.83±0.29, 84.27±0.60,107.11±0.52, 185.60±0.70, 251.03±0.82, 373.56±1.62, 513.99±1.71, 585.01±2.21, 737.49±3.83, 879.35±4.81, 965.90±4.94, and 1194.17± 6.25 g. Feathered shank local hill fowl males had prominently mixed colours in their plumage with, black brown gold (43%), followed by black brown, black white, black golden and black red brown white. However, female birds had 50% single colour plumage; most frequent single colour was founded to be black followed by brown, dusty brown and almond colour. Feathered shank females also had notably mixed colour plumage (50%). It was found that feathered shank local hill fowl dominated with single type comb i.e. 99% and 98% in males and females birds, respectively. However, (2%) female birds possess pea type comb and male birds occasionally have rose comb (1%). Ear lobe was found to be mainly white red (46%) followed by yellow red (30%) and red (24%) in colour in feathered shank male hill fowl. However, red colour predominantly distributed (46%) in females followed by white red (44%) and yellow red (10%). Eyes were predominantly brown-black (45% in males and 54% in females), followed by grey-black (44% in males and 34% in females), orange-black (8% in males and 5% in females), total black (3% in males and 4% in females); and grey brown (3% in females only) in feathered shank local hill. The skin colour in feathered shank hill fowl was generally yellow. It was noted that black yellow colour shanks were the more frequently (53% in males and 61% in females) encountered in the feathered shank local hill fowl, followed by yellow shanks (28% in males and 5% females) and white yellow colour shanks (19% in males and 34% in females). The averages of heamoglobin packed cell volume (PCV), total leucocytes count (thousands /cmm), lymphocytes count, heterophils, monocytes, basophils, eosinophils and H: L ratio were found to be 12.94±0.06 g/dl, 39.6±0.25%, 24.04±0.10X103/cmm, 68.98±0.88, 16.40±0.66, 5.03±0.34, 2.46±0.11%, and 0.24±0.01 male birds and 9.73± 0.06 g/%, 31.6± 0.65%, 23.96±0.08 x103/cmm, 68.06±0.71, 10.11±0.83, 14.05±0.61, 4.43±0.14, 2.29±0.16% and 0.21±0.61 in female birds. The averages of total protein, albumin, and globulin, cholesterol, glucose and A: G ratio were 4.62±0.03 g/dl, 1.85±0.01 g/dl, 2.77±0.03 g/dl, 114.51±2.00 mg/dl, 235.62±0.92 mg/dl and 0.67±0.01 in male and 4.14±0.02 g/dl, 1.75±0.00 g/dl, 2.39±0.03 g/dl, 113.421±0.68 mg/dl, 234.38 ±1.64 mg/dl, 0.74 ±0.01 in female, respectively. Fertility, hatchability on the basis of fertile egg set and total egg set were 71.16±1.16, 85.32±1.68 and 60.78±1.70 per cent in feathered local hill fowl, respectively. The average live weight at twenty weeks of age, dressed weight, eviscerated weight, giblet weight, skin weight, feet and shank weight, head weight, feather weight, wing weight and neck weight were 1202.00±37.98, 922.80±31.37, 750.40±28.03, 66.60±1.13, 161.00±1.63,66.4±2.41, 42.20±1.55, 84.00±3.87, 90.60±3.29 and 54.40±2.12 g in male and 1044.00±6.68, 812.00±5.01, 643.00±3.43, 61.80±0.53, 151.00±2.41, 49.8±1.06, 37.80±0.58, 81.00±2.21, 83.2±1.24,and 48.20±1.69g in female, respectively .the average egg weight, shape index, haught units, shell thickness, specific gravity, albumin index, yolk index, albumin weight, albumin volume, yolk weight and shell weight in feathered shank local hill fowl were 52.74±0.62g, 70.61±1.05, 76.22±2.82, 0.38±0.01mm, 1.08±0.03, 0.09±0.01, 0.50±0.01, 27.75±0.74g, 25.70±0.25ml, 16.93±0.37g and 5.02±0.16 g, respectively.
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