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A selective breeding program was implemented to improve the performance of indigenous chickens. Improved chicken from the 7th generation were compared with commercial layer, crossbred and unselected indigenous chickens both on-station and on-farm. A total of 870 chickens were used. More than 600 ...
The rearing of indigenous chickens is an integral part of the smallholder farming system in the tropics, where they are kept by the rural poor to fulfil multiple functions. Their special adaptation to environmental stresses and poor husbandry practices has made them the choice of breed for smallh...
The mode of ownership of chicken in the family was various types, for instance shared ownership constituted about (57%) followed by individual ownership (43%) among the members of the households. More than around 70% of overall care-taking of chickens, feeding of chickens, cleaning of birds-quart...
This study was conducted in four Peasant Associations in Jamma district. A total of 120 households from four PAs were involved in the study. Ninety eight percent of farmers were supplementing extra feeds and water for their chickens, with the main proportion of food leftover (26.4%) followed by s...
Crossbreeding parameters were estimated for egg production performance ofindigenous Ethiopian and White Leghorn chicken and their crosses at Debre ZeitAgricultural Research Centre, Ethiopia. The GLM procedure of SAS (1997) wasused to estimate the contribution of additive genetic and heterotic eff...
In this paper, available data on the distribution, economic importance and efforts made so far towards the control of Newcastle Disease (ND) in Ethiopia were presented. ND is the single major health constraint, which causes heavy mortality and morbidity to village chicken and affects productivity...
In this review paper, available information on Avian Influenza Virus (AIV) in relation to its history, pathogenicity, distribution, economic importance, the growing public health concern and the an emerging trade-sensitiveness of the disease caused by the virus on the faces of recently reported o...
This study was conducted in Oromia, Amhara and Benishangul-gumuz regionalstates of Ethiopia. It was aimed to assess the infection and distribution rates ofhoneybee chalk brood disease (HCBD), analyse association of the disease with differentbioclimatic zones and determine seasonal occurrence of t...
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