Review on Poultry Production, Trends and Development Strategies in Ethiopia

Ethiopia has considerable livestock resource and poultry population is second ranked preceded by Cattle. Besides their important numbers, little known about production systems, growth, egg utilization trends development strategies in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian almost entirely composed of indigenous chicken recent estimates showed that 81.7%, 10.9%, 7.4% are indigenous, hybrids exotic, respectively. distribution diverging from region to region. Oromia the largest number followed Amhara, South Nation Nationality People (SNNP). Poultry system an integral part farming system. Based on objective, breed, flock size, housing, feeding, health, biosecurity level technology used, can be classified into extensive or scavenging, semi-intensive, small-scale intensive large scale commercial scavenging small-extensive systems dominant forms growth over year stagnant because high mortality due lack adaptation introduced exotic poultry, diseases, predators prevalent limited expansion both terms operators volume operation. sector did not have a clear roadmap guiding its until LMP. future study should attention onto system, constraints adaption breeds reason for eggs sale household consumption fluctuated.