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ISSN: 2360-7874 |
Academic Research Journal of
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Vol. 8(3), pp. 244-251, April 2020 Research Review on Productive and Reproductive Performance of Exotic Chicken Breed in Ethiopia
Ararsa Bogale* and Chala Edae*
* Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research
Accepted 30 April 2020
According to many authors, there is a low productivity of local chicken breed and increment of demand of poultry, poultry product and by product in Ethiopia. To improve this problem, there are research activities on the breeding and nutritional improvement in the poultry sub sector of the livestock development. In case of breeding improvement, efforts are currently being made to alleviate this problem by introducing, evaluating, and identifying suitable high-performing exotic breeds that can adapt and to intensive and extensive management conditions in Ethiopia (Esatu et al., 2015; Ibrahim et al., 2018). Since 1950, there are a lot of exotic chicken imported in our country i.e layers, broilers and dual purpose chicken breeds. According to the findings of different research study, high egg and meat production can be obtained from different layers, dual purpose and broiler of exotic chicken breed in different agroecology of the Ethiopia. In addition to this, there are a lot of finding of reproductive performance parameters evaluation of exotic chicken(hatchability, average age of first mating of cockerels, average age at first egg and body weight and average number of cluthes per year per hen) by different authors in Ethiopia. According to their report, exotic chicken breeds have better reproductive and productive performance than the local indigenous chicken breed. And also, there is a difference of performance within the particular chicken breed categories. So based on the findings of different authors, we should have to identify the breed and management to obtain high product from the exotic chicken breed. Additionally, the researchers should have focus on the full package of exotic chicken production industry rather than focus on the breed performance evaluation.
Key words: Exotic, chicken breed, Ethiopia, performance
How to cite this article (APA Style): Ararsa B., Chala E (2020). Review on Productive and Reproductive Performance of Exotic Chicken Breed in Ethiopia. Acad. Res. J. Agri. Sci. Res. 8(3): 244-251
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