Assessing the reproductive and productive performance of indigenous chickens in Gash Barka region of Eritrea
Joint Authors
Araya, Mengistu Russom
Habteslasie, Hortuma Asefaw
Source
Sudan Journal of Science and Technology
Issue
Vol. 20, Issue 1 (30 Jun. 2019), pp.1-17, 17 p.
Publisher
Sudan University of Science and Technology Deanship of Scientific Research
Publication Date
2019-06-30
Country of Publication
Sudan
No. of Pages
17
Main Subjects
Economy and Commerce
Agriculture
Topics
Abstract EN
The study was conducted in three sub-zones (Shambqo, Molqi and Logo-Anseba) of Gash-Barka region of Eritrea with objective of assessing the productive and reproductive performance of indigenous chickens (IC) of Eritrea kept under traditional/ village condition.
A total of 111 chicken rearing smallholder farmers were interviewed to collect required information using a semi-structured pre-tested questionnaire.
The study revealed that, IC production appears to be an important activity in all surveyed sub-zones.
This is indicated by the high IC holding per household that is 19.3, 13.3 and 15 for Shambqo, Molqi and Logo-Anseba, respectively.
Furthermore, 43.2% of these households rear more than 15 indigenous chickens with sex ratio of four hens to one cock.
The effective population size and the rate of inbreeding calculated were 4.87 and 0.11, respectively.
The investigation revealed that IC was reared mainly for egg production and earning cash income.
The IC production system was a backyard extensive production system.
IC ecotypes were managed mainly on scavenging with regular feed supplementation.
The average age of male at first mating was 5.46 ± 0.08 months while female at first egg was 6.08 ±0.07 months.
The number of clutch per hen per year, eggs per clutch and total eggs produced per hen per year were 3.38±0.05, 11.53±0.27 and 38.88±1.06 eggs, respectively.
Significant (p<0.05) differences were found among the sub-zone in all the above traits except for cockerels age at first mating.
The hatchability and survival rate of chicks were found to be 76.87% and 48.6%, respectively
American Psychological Association (APA)
Habteslasie, Hortuma Asefaw& Araya, Mengistu Russom. 2019. Assessing the reproductive and productive performance of indigenous chickens in Gash Barka region of Eritrea. Sudan Journal of Science and Technology،Vol. 20, no. 1, pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-892892
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Habteslasie, Hortuma Asefaw& Araya, Mengistu Russom. Assessing the reproductive and productive performance of indigenous chickens in Gash Barka region of Eritrea. Sudan Journal of Science and Technology Vol. 20, no. 1 (Jun. 2019), pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-892892
American Medical Association (AMA)
Habteslasie, Hortuma Asefaw& Araya, Mengistu Russom. Assessing the reproductive and productive performance of indigenous chickens in Gash Barka region of Eritrea. Sudan Journal of Science and Technology. 2019. Vol. 20, no. 1, pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-892892
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Text in English ; abstracts in .
Record ID
BIM-892892