Indigenous (native) breeds of livestock have higher disease resistance and adaptation to the environment due to high genetic diversity. Even though their extinction rate is accelerated due to the increase of commercial breeds, natural disaster, and civil war, there is a lack of well-established databases for the native breeds. Thus, we constructed the native pig and chicken breed database (NPCD...

Possibilities of predicting eggshell ultrastructure from direct non-destructive and destructive measurements were examined using 120 Fayoumi eggs collected from the flock at 45 weeks of age. The non-destructive measurements included weight, length and width of the egg. The destructive measurements were breaking strength and shell thickness. The eggshell ultrastructure traits involved the total ...

Salmonella enteritidis (SE) contamination of poultry products is of global food-safety concern. The natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 1 (NRAMP1) affects host innate immunity to intracellular bacteria because of its ability to transport divalent cations in late endosome/lysosomes. Studying the association of the NRAMP1 gene and chicken innate immune response to SE can, therefore, ...

Abstract The cross-breed chickens are indigenous formed from quality donor with their respective characteristics and advantages. hope is that the chicken this cross has advantages, especially better meat quality. purpose of study was to analyze carcass crosses. were Merawang, Murung panggang KUB chickens. results divided into two breeds, namely first breeds females Merawang males, while second ...

This study was aimed to evaluate the effects of substitution oregano essential oil (OEO) for antibiotics in plateau-broiler diet. Partridge Shank chicken is a broiler breed which has str...

Crowing-type chicken is one of the important chicken breeds in Indonesia. This study was conducted to investigate the crowing characters of Pelung chicken and the effect of exon 7 FoxP2 gene polymorphism in mute chicken. Chicken were obtained from local breeder. Pelung chicken crowing and morphology characterizations were conducted in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia. Chicken breeding (♀ ...

Poultry meat is one of the most important sources protein for human consumption worldwide. Chicken and turkeys are considered as healthy because they have relatively low levels saturated fat compared with red meat. Kadaknath a native breed, found in tribal dominated Jhabua district Madhya Pradesh, India. But its priced three times more than that broiler chicken. Narmada Nidhi an improved locati...