Chicken eggs contribute substantially to the human nutrition and so their dietary profile including lipid, cholesterol and antioxidant contents are particularly important. In addition, because yolk weight is related to the amount of cholesterol, choice for the nutritionally potential and...

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...

The objectives of the study to compare the growth performance of Deshi, Fayoumi, RIR and Sonali chicken reared under farm and semi scavenging. A total of 288 day-old chicks (72 from Deshi, 72 Fayoumi, 72 RIR and 72 Sonali) were used in this trial for a period of 20 weeks of age with 4 genotypes....

A two-way selection for larval period and the corresponding pre-pupal weight in the housefy, Musca domestica L. was carried out for parental through F16 generations when the traits attained plateaued levels. The high (shorter larval duration) and low (longer larval duration) selection regimes...