Characterization of Village Chicken Production and Marketing Systems in Meket District, North Wollo Zone, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia

T.D. Assefa¹ , M.A. Ewunetu²

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.7 , Issue.1 , pp.1-6, Feb-2020

Online published on Feb 28, 2020

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Abstract :
The study was conducted to generate comprehensive information on village chicken production and marketing systems in Meket district of North Wolo Zone, Ethiopia. The study was performed based on household survey and group discussion. For household survey, twelve kebeles were purposively selected and a total of 120 households were involved. Majority of households (80.3%) were kept indigenous chicken ecotype. The flock size of chicken per household was 8.79±1.4 (range 0 to 12). Most of the households (73.3%) were practiced backyard chicken production systems. The purpose of chickens, in order of importance were income generation (36.7%), egg production (20.0 %%), egg hatching (16.7%), home consumption (10.0%) and for religious ceremonies (8.3%). The majority of the households (60%) practiced extensive management systems. Most of households were not prepare a separate house for their chicken (85%). The entire households were hatching the egg by using natural incubation. Most of the households were sold their chicken through formal market (63.3%) for the consumers (83.3%). The average age at first mating of cockerels and age at first egg of pullets were 24.8 weeks and 7.1 months, respectively. The average number of egg laid /clutch and annual productivity of local hens in the study district was 13.1±0.8 and 52.3±0.9) eggs, respectively. Religious/culture/holidays and seasonal diseases outbreak were highly associated with marketing and consumption of chicken products. New castle disease was the major infectious diseases affecting productivity and survival of village chicken. 79.7% of chicken owners reared birds mainly during dry season, when the risk of disease outbreak and predation is low.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Backyard, chicken ecotype, Marketing practice, production systems

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