Evaluation of Egg Quality and Carcass Characteristics of Different Strains of Chickens Produced under Varied Management Systems in Western Oromia, Ethiopia
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https://doi.org/10.20372/afnr.v2i1.971Keywords:
Carcass quality, Chicken Strains, Egg qualityAbstract
The study was undertaken to Evaluate egg quality of Local Horro chickens produced under different agro-ecologies and carcass characteristics of three chicken breeds namely, (Improved Horro (IH), Potchefstroom Koekoek (PK), white feathered DZ (DZ1) produced under the same management. For the carcass characteristics determination among the three chicken breeds, 30 male chickens; 10 for each breed (IH, PK and DZ1) were slaughtered. For egg quality evaluation and carcass characteristics analysis, crosstab and GLM in SPSS ver. 20 was employed. The egg weight, egg length, egg width, shell weight and shell thicknesses had significant (P <0.001) differences across the three agroecologies (highland, midland and lowland). Agroecology also significantly (P<0.01) affected all external egg quality traits studied except egg shape index. The mean internal egg quality traits (albumen weight, yolk weight, yolk-albumen ratio and yolk diameter) were significantly (P<0.001) affected by agro-ecology. For the carcass characteristics determination, the live weight of chicken breed had a significant (P<0.01) difference whereas carcass weight and the cuts, such as hot carcass weight (HCW), chilled carcass weight (CCW), breast yield, and drumstick weight had no significant (P>0.05) difference. However, the thigh weight among the cuts evaluated had a slight significant (P<0.01) difference. Overall agro-ecologic and chicken breed variations with respect to productivity and product quality showed the effects of agro-ecologic differences, chicken strains and management on performances of chicken.
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