Productive Potentials of Nigerian Indigenous Chickens Versus Rhode Island Red Chicken Reared Southern Guinea Savanna Environment of Nigeria
The study was conducted to assess the preliminary evaluation of productive potentials of Nigerian indigenous chicken breeds versus Rhode Island Red chicken reared Southern Guinea Savanna environment of Nigeria. A total of 937 day-old local chickens generated from a main cross of local chickens possessing some major genes; naked-neck (NN x NN), frizzle (FF x FF), normal feathered gene (NF x NF), Fulani ecotype (FE x FE) and exotic birds (RIR x RIR) were used to evaluate the productive potential of the pullets in a randomized complete block design. The genetic groups produced were homozygous naked neck, (NN), frizzled (FF), normal feathered (NF), fulani ecotype (FE) and Rhode Island Red (RIR) chickens. Significant (p<0.05) difference in body weight, daily feed intake, weight gain and feed conversion ratio were observed among genotypes and as expected, RIR crosses outstands bodyweight (1402 g), consuming more feed (98.33g), weight gain of 15.69 g with feed conversion ratio of 0.15 and average egg weight (54.02 g) than other genetic groups. Among the local birds, NN crosses were superior in growth performance and egg production parameters than other indigenous birds. NN crosses lay earlier (152 day) than other genetic groups and FE crosses had better fertility (86.65%) and hatchability (89.07%) traits compared with all their counterpart genotypes while body weight at first egg was highest and lowest for RIR crosses (1342.86 g) and NF crosses (1255.89 g) respectively. This result depicts that the Nigerian indigenous chickens especially naked neck genotype had a better productive performance among the Nigerian indigenous chicken which may be involved in breeding for developing native foundation stock with RIR exotic birds for production of egg type chicken in this southern guinea savanna region of Nigeria.
Indigenous Chicken, Growth Performance, Egg Production, Reproductive Traits, Rhode Island Red Chicken
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