Review on Production and Reproduction Performance of Indigenous Chicken in Ethiopia

The review summarizes the production and reproductive performance of indigenous chicken in Ethiopia. Even though total population is high enough (98%) than other exotic crossbreeds, gain from poultry sector still low. Thus, was encountered under free-range systems with low input for sector, which limits profit due to egg production, small size, slow growth rate, late maturity, clutch intensive inclination broodiness, mortality chickens. chickens includes hatchability fertility eggs addition above, depended on health, nutrition, genetics, storage, incubation condition, seasonal fluctuation, as well number given broody hens, also another factor that causes variability. hen reaches up 85.69%, higher reports a modern incubator governmental breed multiplication centre Ethiopia (69%) standard breeding conditions. In terms meat minimum values were recorded cross breeds because there no identified productive country classifications based ecotypes/location/ feather plumages chicken, even if they have good quality test their products. They are scavenging foragers level disease tolerance, maternal quality, adapt harsh conditions poor-quality feeds. However, lack knowledge about limitation feed resources, prevalence institutional socio-economic faced