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Kadaknath: a popular native chicken breed of India with unique black colour characteristics

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Title Kadaknath: a popular native chicken breed of India with unique black colour characteristics
 
Creator Santosh Haunshi
L. L. L. Prince
 
Subject Kadaknath; black; growth; production; meat; egg quality; fibromelanosis
 
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Kadaknath is the most popular native chicken breed of India. This breed is experiencing higher demand due to its unique characteristics and perceived health benefits of its meat and eggs. The entire bird including plumage, skin, shank, and internal organs is black. The black colour of this bird is due to hyperpigmentation associated with the fibromelanosis character. Three varieties of the Kadaknath breed have been identified based primarily on plumage colour: jet black, pencilled and golden. Kadaknath is a small-sized bird with small shanks (51.5 mm at 8 weeks). It attains the body weight of 865 g at 20 weeks. Cocks and hens weigh about 1500 and 1200 g, respectively, at 40 weeks. The average age at first egg is high (185 days) and the egg production potential of this breed is somewhat less (50 to 55 eggs in 40 weeks). Egg production up to 52 weeks was 90 to 105 eggs
and the annual egg production is estimated to be in the range of 120 to 140 eggs. This breed has good fertility (80 to 85%) and hatchability (83 to 90%) status. Eggs are small in size (42 to 45 g) but have good shell quality (10.47% shell) with light brown to brown coloured shells, and low yolk to albumen ratio (0.51). Consumers prefer Kadaknath meat due to its desirable flavour and lean meat (0.11 to 0.52% abdominal fat) as compared to broiler meat (1.74 to 1.85% abdominal fat). Increased demand for healthier meat among consumers has led
to the rearing of Kadaknath birds in intensive and semi-intensive systems around the major cities in India. The current paper describes the growth, production, and reproduction performance, status of immune-competence, carcase characteristics, meat quality, egg quality traits and future research needs of the Kadaknath breed.
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Date 2021-06-25T06:07:36Z
2021-06-25T06:07:36Z
2021-06-24
 
Type Review Paper
 
Identifier Haunshi S. and L. L. L. Prince. 2021. Kadaknath: a popular native chicken breed of India with unique black colour characteristics, World's Poultry Science Journal, 77:2, 427-440, DOI: 10.1080/00439339.2021.1897918
https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/twps20
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/47425
 
Language English
 
Relation Not Available;
 
Publisher Taylor and Francis