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Study on the Performance of Backyard Poultry Production Reared By Rural Woman in Mahoba

Sudhir Kumar Rawat, Ramjee Gupta and Sarju Narain

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A study was conducted during the year 2012 to investigate performance of backyard poultry maintained by woman in rural areas of mahoba. 200 female farmers were selected at random from 10 randomly selected villages of mahoba. Average flock size maintained by a household in rural areas of mahoba was 22.53±9.92 birds with a higher number of chicks 13.92±5.38 than adult birds 9.21±4.54. Fewer birds was found in flocks given no housing facility 59.36% than those given part time housing facility 17.94%. Higher number of birds/household was found with flock owners vaccinating their chicken against Marek’s + ND + Fowl pox than those not vaccinating their chicken against these diseases. On the average 2168±15.62 eggs were obtained by a household. Egg production/ bird irrespective of the breed was found to be 127±8.53 eggs. Of the total eggs produced, 873±18.70 eggs were consumed by the household on annual basis. More eggs per bird were produced by Rhode Island Red (RIR) than Desi breeds. Flocks given a part time housing facility and full time housing produced more eggs/bird than those given no housing. Birds given Kitchen leftover, insect, worms, crop residues, grass and grains were mainly used as feed materials, cereal grains, cereal bran, broken grains and other house waste products. As far as water is provided for village chickens at different times of the day: ad-libitum. Eggs and bird are sold from farmer household directly (72.4%) and Almost 27.6% farmers were in selling chicken & eggs in the village market. This study concludes were RIR produced higher number of eggs/bird under scavenging conditions than desi, kadaknath and White Leghorn breeds. Effective health coverage, housing facilities and rearing of highly productive breeds will improve backyard poultry production in rural areas of Mahoba.

Keyword: Backyard poultry, Desi bi

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