Effects of Protein Levels on Growth and Laying Performance of the Malawian Indigenous Chicken
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In Malawi, just like any other country, nutrition remains one of the challenges that indigenous chickens experience under smallholder management system. The birds are dependent on scavenging feed resources which is inadequate and chickens sometimes are supplemented with maize bran and left over’s depending on the availability. This results in low productivity in indigenous chickens. Indigenous chickens play important role in socio-economic status of rural people in developing countries [1]. Nearly all rural and peri urban families in Malawi keep small flock of free range chickens. The wide distributions of IC among household indigenous chickens make greatest contribution to household food security and therefore provide most of the protein in villages in form of eggs and meat. Small land and low capital requirement makes the chickens appropriate for resource poor farmers and their communities [2]. Nutritional requirements of chickens are influenced by genotype and body size. The provision of supplemental feed in scavenging chicken production has direct influence on productivity of scavenging indigenous chickens, but little information is available on the strategies to be used to supplement scavenging chickens [3]. In Malawi, nutrition remains one of the challenges that indigenous chickens experience under smallholder management system. The birds depend on scavenging feed resources and occasional supplementation with kitchen leftovers, cereal bran and small amounts of cereal grains which do not provide the required nutrients for normal activities and growth. However, little has been done to find out the nutrition requirements of the indigenous chickens in Malawi. Therefore, the current study aims at determining the optimal crude protein that can improve the performance of the IC in terms of growth and egg production.
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تاریخ انتشار 2017