Characterization of Village Chicken Production and Marketing Systems in Chiro District, West Hararghe Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Performance and egg quality traits of local chickens across different agroecologies in the Kewot district, North Shewa zone, Northern Ethiopia

“…The overall age at first egg of the LCs (6.05 ± 0.06 months) in this study was similar to the value reported by Tadele et al (2019) in the Kaffa zone (6.10 months), while it was earlier than that reported by Demeke (2020) in the Chiro district (7.40 months) and Abegaz and Gemechu (2016) in the Yeki district (6.80 months). The overall age at sexual maturity of the LCs (5.68 ± 0.08 months) in this study was similar to the values reported by Abegaz and Gemechu (2016) in the Yeki district (5.33 months) and Bekele et al (2016a) in the Bench Maji zone (5.74 months).…”

Assessment on backyard chicken feeding practices and health management in Fogera district Amhara region, Ethiopia

“…The relatively higher proportion of laying hens per household in the study area might be because of the interest of the farmers for increased egg production and using laying hens as parent stocks for hatching as the sources of replacement. The mean flock size in the study was 17.7 which was greater than report of [16] in Hwassa zuria (8) and by [11] for Dale woreda (9.2) and the report of [17] which was (6.2) of national average. The number of chicken and cockerels were few which might indicate that all farmers don't have interest to rear cockerels as they require only layer poultry population for selling egg.…”

“…Information from the respondents, only supplementary feed is given to young chicks could not fulfill their nutritional requirement since supported by scavenging as compared to mature chickens. In contrast to this result [17] reported that supplementary feed materials are offered to all classes of chicken on bare ground. The proportion of the frequency feed in both kebele show that below Table 5, then 36.67%, were feeding their chicken twice per day, 0.67% once per day and the rest 56.67% was three ways per day.…”

Climate change induced a progressive shift of livelihood from cereal towards Khat (Chata edulis) production in eastern Ethiopia

“…The district is 326 km away from Addis Ababa in the east direction. The elevation ranges from 1500 to 2500 m above sea level, with 56.4% lowland (33 kebeles), 33.3% mid-altitude (13 kebeles), and 10.3% (4 kebeles) highland [ 44 ]. In the lowlands and highlands, the annual average temperature ranges from 27.5 °C to 38.5 °C, with annual rainfall ranging from 600 mm to 1000 mm in the lowlands and highlands, respectively [ 45 ].…”