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Production performance and egg quality evaluation of indigenous chickens across different agro-ecologies of Southern Ethiopia

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Title Production performance and egg quality evaluation of indigenous chickens across different agro-ecologies of Southern Ethiopia
 
Creator Bekele, Berhanu
Melesse, Aberra
Dessie, Tadelle
Bekele, B.
Melesse, A.
Esatu, Wondmeneh
 
Subject agroecology
egg quality
indegenous chicken
chickens
 
Description Indigenous chickens were evaluated for their egg production, growth performances, and external and internal egg quality parameters across three agro-ecologies. For experiment 540 (180 male and 432 female) chickens were distributed to the three agro-ecologies (lowland, midland, and highland) at their 20 weeks age. Body weight was recorded from each chicken during distribution, 4th week, and 8th week after distribution into pre-selected households. Egg production potential was identified from the indigenous chickens across different agro-ecologies. Moreover, egg quality traits were evaluated from randomly selected 270 (90 from each agroecology) eggs. Egg production of indigenous chickens in the highland was 47.7 which was highly significantly (P = 0.0001) lower number than of midland (54.2) and lowland (51.4). Except for Shell weight, all the external egg quality parameters evaluated were exhibited significant differences across different agro-ecologies. Among the internal egg quality parameters only albumen weight had a significantly (P = 0.007) higher in midland than highland. Most of the variation in egg weight was due to the positive correlation with egg length (69%), and egg width (67%). There was a variation for performance and egg quality traits of indigenous chickens in different agro-ecologies, especially better in midland, which might be resulted from the variation in environment, feed resources availability, and better management followed by households.
 
Date 2022-01-01
2023-01-13T13:32:00Z
2023-01-13T13:32:00Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Bekele, B., Melesse, A., Esatu, W. and Dessie, T. 2022. Production performance and egg quality evaluation of indigenous chickens across different agro-ecologies of Southern Ethiopia. Veterinary Integrative Sciences, 20(1).
2629-9968
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127043
https://doi.org/10.12982/VIS.2022.012
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Publisher Chiang Mai University