Effects of crossbreeding on growth, production and selected egg quality traits of Improved Horro crosses with Cosmopolitan chickens

Hailemariam, Atsbaha; Esatu, Wondmeneh; Abegaz, Solomon; Urge, Mengistu; Assefa, Getnet; Dessie, Tadelle

doi:10.1016/j.jafr.2023.100716

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“…The significant variations in the egg production traits as affected by pure, straight and reciprocal crosses of chickens in this current study. This study had earlier been affirmed by Rasheed 7 , Hailemariam et al 13 , Habte et al 14 , Melesse et al 15 and Tongsiri et al 16 . These authors revealed significant variations in the egg production performance among different pure and crossbred chickens in their various studies.…”

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Egg Production Characteristics of Nigerian Indigenous Chickens, Rhode Island Red and Their Crossbred Progenies

Amao,

Ojedapo,

Adedeji

2024

Trends Agric. Sci

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Background and Objective:The crossbreeding program in livestock production as it is the likely genetic basis of hybrid vigor. It is also expected to be one of the factors causing the genetic relationships between crossbred and purebred performance characteristics. This study was focused on egg production characteristics of pure Nigerian indigenous chickens, Rhode Island Red and their crossbred progenies in the derived guinea savanna environment of Nigeria. Materials and Methods: A total of 100 birds were sourced and used as parents for the experiment. This consists of 5 cocks and 15 hens each of naked neck-NN, normal feather-NF, frizzled feather-FF, Fulani ecotype-FE and Rhode Island Red-RIR chickens. Data were obtained on egg production characteristics (body weight at first egg, age at first egg, weight of first egg, egg number, hen day egg production and hen housed egg production). Results: The obtained results depicted a significant (p<0.05) difference in egg production parameters, frizzled feather (FF) had the lighter body weight at first egg (1258.33 g), RIR×FF comes to lay earlier (140 days) while RIR had the highest weight of first egg (45.33 g), hen-day (80.35%) and hen-housed (75.35%). The parameters on fertility and hatchability also indicated that crossbred NN×NN had the highest fertility and hatchability rates of 95.24 and 100%, respectively. Conclusion: It was concluded that RIR genetics component may be used to improve the local stocks of egg production characteristics in the derived savanna environment of Nigeria.

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Egg Production Characteristics of Nigerian Indigenous Chickens, Rhode Island Red and Their Crossbred Progenies

Amao,

Ojedapo,

Adedeji

2024

Trends Agric. Sci

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A literature review on effect of chicken crossbreeding on egg production traits

Mokoena,

Mbazima,

Tyasi

2024

World's Poultry Science Journal

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Relative Phenotypic Performance of Crossbred Chicken as Step in Synthetic Breed Development in Ethiopia: A Review Article

Taye,

Edea,

Hailemariam

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IJGG

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The present review article aims to provide and summarize synthesized information regarding some of economically important traits on reproductive and productive performance of crossbred chicken to develop both adaptive and sustainable breed to the intended beneficiaries. Most of crossing were used full diallel mating design in both direct and reciprocal ways. Growth traits, egg production traits, reproductive traits and other economically important traits of crossbred chicken were assessed in comparison to their counterpart’s purebred both native and exotic parents. In the majority of crossbreeding studies, the hybrids surpassed the original native parental breeds in various traits studied, including body weight, feed conversion ratio, age at first egg, egg production, egg weight, and egg mass. The majority of hybrids achieved sexual maturity at an earlier age, laid more eggs, and produced a greater egg mass when compared to local chickens. Eggs from the hybrids were also heavier than those from the local chickens in certain crossbreeding experiments. In overall, crossbred chickens that combine the blood of exotic and local breeds tend to perform relatively better than indigenous chickens, which are typically characterized in low production due genetics. The frequent production of F<sub>1 </sub>crossbred demands in subsequent importation of exotic parent due to produced offspring chicken are terminal genetically. Also, the degree of heterosis retained in the crossbred decreased as generation increased due recombinant ad segregations effects. To overcome such problem producing adaptive and sustainable chicken breed through synthetic breeding is crucial for developing countries like Ethiopia.

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Effects of crossbreeding on growth, production and selected egg quality traits of Improved Horro crosses with Cosmopolitan chickens

Cited by 4 publications

References 34 publications

Egg Production Characteristics of Nigerian Indigenous Chickens, Rhode Island Red and Their Crossbred Progenies

Egg Production Characteristics of Nigerian Indigenous Chickens, Rhode Island Red and Their Crossbred Progenies

A literature review on effect of chicken crossbreeding on egg production traits

Relative Phenotypic Performance of Crossbred Chicken as Step in Synthetic Breed Development in Ethiopia: A Review Article

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