Dr. R. S. JoshiNAGE PRAVIN RAMKRUSHNA2017-05-102017-05-102011http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810010876The present study was undertaken to evaluate production potential of three breeds Australorp (A), New Hampshire (NH) and Broiler (B) and growth performance in their crossbred progenies. The crossbred progenies were produced by full diallel crossing between above breeds with an objective to study growth performance in F1 generation. Thus, the present study was divided into two parts i.e. to study the production and reproductive performance of pure breeds and to study the juvenile growth rate of their crossbred progenies. The various traits studied in pure breeds were growth rate, age at first egg (AFE), egg number up to 40 weeks of age, HHEP and HDEP (%), egg weight, total feed consumption, fertility and hatchability, livability and economics in terms of return over feed cost. The traits studied in the crossbred progenies were body weight, weight gain, feed consumed, FCR, livability, heterosis and economics in terms of EPEI. TheenAnimal NutritionStudyThesis