Current Status of Indigenous and Highly Productive Chicken Breeds in Ethiopia

In Ethiopia, chicken production plays an important role in providing human food consumption, growth of domestic products, and creating employment opportunities. Despite their importance, the reproduction performance chickens country is under expectation owing to gap between low productive indigenous adaptive ability highly breeds. By considering this, present paper aims deliver, synthesize, summarize compiled information on current status Currently, there are several breeds available Ethiopia. Among these, Rhode Island Red, Fayoumi, Potchefstroom Koekoek, Sasso, Bovan Brown, Issa Leghorn being kept various husbandry systems. Besides, ecotypes such as barley plumage color, red white black color have been characterized country. However, average annual egg did not exceed 60 250 eggs, respectively. On other hand, meat limited cockerels pullets may reach 1.5 1.05 kilogram live weight at 6 months age, Concerning system, a majority owners supplied feed ground water plastic containers while scavenging common feeding system most parts Furthermore, using no separate housing treat traditionally. Thus, awareness should be emphasized enhancing improvement systems for better performance.