Productivity study revealed that Sonali breed was the highest in production number in both the government (GOV) and private (PRI) poultry farms in Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Moreover, Sonali attained the highest production in the fiscal years 2011-12 and 2012-13. The BCF attained the maximum profit...

Aims: The present study on management practices, productive performance and profitability of indigenous chickens evaluated the existing indigenous rearing practices with the objectives to pave the way for improvement of this variety into sustainable income in favour of the small-scale urban,...

Production performance and economic efficiencies of broiler of Cobb 500, cockerel of ISA Brown, Fayoumi, and RIR (Rhode Island Red) and Sonali (derived from RIR♂ × Fayoumi♀) available in Rajshahi were investigated. Identical care and management practices were provided to chickens of all...

A total of 641004 chickens were produced by 10 farms, of which Cobb 500 (broilers) in P1 was the highest in number (243000) and G1 yielded the lowest (10117 Fayoumi, RIR and Sonali breeds). The most common chicken breed reared in the area was Cobb 500 (276350) and the least common was ISA Brown...

This study was aimed at investigating the external and internal egg quality traits along with their correlation values of an indigenous (Deshi), three exotics (Cobb 500 of Broiler, Fayoumi, and RIR) and a crossbred (Sonali derived from RIR♂×Fayoumi♀) chicken breeds available in Rajshahi....

Context: The quantification of morphometric variations has been regarded as peripheral to the mechanistic study of development of a species. This is now changing because the rapidly advancing knowledge of development in post-genomic biology is creating a need for more refined measurements of the...

A comparative account of haemato-biochemical profiles of an indigenus (IND) and five chicken breeds: viz. Cobb 500 (COB), cockerel (COC), Fayoumi (FAY), Rhode Island Red (RIR), and Sonali (SON, derived from RIR cock × FAY hen), has been presented. The haematological profile included total...

Current status of Sonali chicken farming in Rajshahi Division has been assessed and interpreted in the present study during a period of one year from March 2019 to February 2020. Data on some socioeconomic parameters of Sonali farming such as farm age, shed types, farmers’ education and...

Season- and farm-wise productivity and mortality of Sonali chickens in 53 selected poultry farms from nine Upozillas (Police Stations) of Rajshahi District during December 2018 and November 2019 were assessed. Results revealed that, on average, small farms produced 775, medium farms 1828 and...

In a series of two separate studies during January through August 2018, various birth abnormalities (BA) from 178 clinical cases and congenital malformations (CMF) from 70 consanguineous marriages (CM) and 100 non-consanguineous marriages (NCM) within the Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) area...