BACKGROUND Crossed beaks have been reported to occur in Appenzeller Barthuhn, a local Swiss chicken breed. The assumed causes for this beak deformity which are also seen in other bird species including domestic chickens, range from environmental influences to genetic factors. The aim of this project was to characterize the prevalence, the phenotype, and the underlying genetics of crossed beaks ...

Flavour comprises mainly of taste and aroma and is involved in consumers' meat-buying behavior and preferences. Chicken meat flavour is supposed to be affected by a number of ante- and post-mortem factors, including breed, diet, post-mortem ageing, method of cooking, etc. Additionally, chicken meat is more susceptible to quality deterioration mainly due to lipid oxidation with resulting off-fla...

SUMMARYTukong is the rumpless indigenous chicken breed of Indonesia. Its features must be described as basis for their preservation and improvement. The current understanding Tukong, including its origin, exterior traits, production indicators, presented in this review. As a result, feather colour varies from greenish-black, reddish-black, bluish-black, brown, white, with red pea-shaped comb. T...

In Ethiopia, chicken production plays an important role in providing human food consumption, growth of domestic products, and creating employment opportunities. Despite their importance, the reproduction performance chickens country is under expectation owing to gap between low productive indigenous adaptive ability highly breeds. By considering this, present paper aims deliver, synthesize, sum...

The necessity of rejection poultry eggs by sex before their incubation is shown. main methods for assessing the sexual dimorphism bird are considered, suitability use evaluating incubation. A hypothesis presented about presence asymmetry chicken in spatial coordinates with male and female embryos set programs has been developed to confirm this studies assess results testing complex on a batch h...