1 SoftFrog cc, PO Box 67, Kei Mouth, 5260, South Africa. Email: [email protected] 2 Percy FitzPatrick Institute, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa 3 Marine and Coastal Management, Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Private Bag X2, Rogge Bay 8012, South Africa 4 Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology & Entomology, Un...

Village chicken is known as a high-quality product perception and sold at high prices. However, the authenticity of village doubted because colored has been claimed to fraud consumers gain profit. No stringent strategy implemented by local authority on chickens. Thus, study aimed determine meat quality different breeds including chicken, broiler (Cobb), (Hubbard), layer from genuine suppliers c...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects different levels palm kernel meal (PKM) on diets layer KUB (Kampung Unggul Balibangtan) chicken. Local feed included in various PKM at 0% (T1), 10% (T2) and 20% (T3). This research conducted 2019 beginning period. One hundred forty-four 22-week-old birds were selected from a flock randomly allocated three treatments with 3 replicates diet...

The conversion of a live chicken into safe and wholesome meat products suitable for human consumption takes place in a series of processing steps. Few of the processes require force to carry it out successively among which are slaughtering and de-feathering. The latter is the focus in this paper, plucking force of chicken produced from two breeds of chicken. Each sample of the chicken carcass w...

The exploitation of industrial strains chickens in the Sahelian climate Niger is characterized by a decline performance and significant costs associated with their maintenance. In contrast, local are well adapted to these environmental conditions but poor production performance. Genetic selection could improve productivity. first step determine if genetic parameters growth high enough ensure su...

An investigation was conducted to study the haematological parameters of Nigerian local chicken using a total 100 chickens out which 30 were randomly selected for bleeding. The blood samples subjected laboratory analysis identify their haemoglobin contents, fragility and sedimentation rates as well red cell counts, white counts coagulation time. results indicated that content ranged from 63.82 ...