Production performance and egg quality evaluation of indigenous chickens across different agro-ecologies of Southern Ethiopia
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)...
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Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University
2021-09-01
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| author | Berhanu Bekele Aberra Melesse Wodmeneh Esatu Tadelle Dessie |
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| 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-13bd86ee9f1a4e51bbdad8bb5efd87ee2023-04-28T08:34:58ZengFaculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai UniversityVeterinary Integrative Sciences2629-99682021-09-0120113314510.12982/VIS.2022.012Production performance and egg quality evaluation of indigenous chickens across different agro-ecologies of Southern EthiopiaBerhanu BekeleAberra MelesseWodmeneh EsatuTadelle Dessie 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.https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/vis/article/view/255526 |
| spellingShingle | Berhanu Bekele Aberra Melesse Wodmeneh Esatu Tadelle Dessie Production performance and egg quality evaluation of indigenous chickens across different agro-ecologies of Southern Ethiopia Veterinary Integrative Sciences |
| title | Production performance and egg quality evaluation of indigenous chickens across different agro-ecologies of Southern Ethiopia |
| title_full | Production performance and egg quality evaluation of indigenous chickens across different agro-ecologies of Southern Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Production performance and egg quality evaluation of indigenous chickens across different agro-ecologies of Southern Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Production performance and egg quality evaluation of indigenous chickens across different agro-ecologies of Southern Ethiopia |
| title_short | Production performance and egg quality evaluation of indigenous chickens across different agro-ecologies of Southern Ethiopia |
| title_sort | production performance and egg quality evaluation of indigenous chickens across different agro ecologies of southern ethiopia |
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