🐔 Poultry Breeds

👉🏻 A breed denotes an established group of bird having the same general bony shape, weight and some common characteristics.

Classification

Important Breeds

Leghorn

• White Leghorn chickens are a variety of the Leghorn breed. They are known for their white feathers, bright red combs, and white earlobes.
• Originating in Tuscany, in central Italy.
• White Leghorns are commonly used as layer chickens in many countries of the world.
• Leghorns are good layers of white eggs, laying an average of 280 per year and sometimes reaching 300–320, with a weight of at least 55 g.
• Therefore, known as the best layer breed.
• White Leghorns have been much used to create highly productive egg-laying hybrids for commercial and industrial operations.

Rhode Island Red

• The Rhode Island Red is an American breed of domestic chicken. It is the state bird of Rhode Island.
• The color of the plumage of the traditional Rhode Island red ranges from a lustrous deep red to almost black; the tail is mostly black.
• The traditional dual-purpose Rhode Island Red lays 200–300 brown eggs per year, and yields rich-flavored meat. (Best Dual Purpose Breed)

Pymouth Rock

• The Plymouth Rock is an American breed of domestic chicken.
• It has barred plumage pattern on body.
• The Plymouth Rock is a dual-purpose breed and is kept both for its meat and for its large brown eggs, of which it lays about 200 per year. The eggs weigh about 55 g.
• Best breed for broiler purpose.

Kadaknath

• Indian breed of chicken originated from Dhar and Jhabua districts of Madhaya Pradesh.
• Kadaknath birds are grey-black all over and have gold plumage with greenish iridescence. The greyish black colour is present in the legs and toenails, beak, tongue, comb and wattles; even the meat, bones, blood and organs have black colouration.
• Egg colour is brown to black.
• Also known as Kali Masi (Fowl having black flesh).
• Meat contains very less fat % which is just 0.73-1.3% compared to other chicken which is 13-25%.
• Black colour due to melanin pigment.
• Kadaknath chicken meat from Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh has now got a Geographical Indication (GI) tag.
• Due to the relatively high consumption of the breed, its numbers have sharply declined throughout the years. To save the breed from extinction, the state government started a Kadaknath poultry breeding program involving 500 families who are below the poverty line, who were to receive financial support and assistance.

Aseel

• Aseel is an Indian breed of game chicken. (fighting sports)
• In Arabic, Aseel, means “high born” which coincides the temperament of the Aseel.
• In India, the Aseel are bred for cock fights because of the aggressive nature.
• It is found in Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh.
• The Aseel has broad, prominent shoulders, wide hips; narrow stern, but “thick and strong in hand at root of tail,” which is an indication of strength. It has full, broad, heavily fleshed breast; thick and muscular thighs.
• Also it has highest weight in all breeds at the age of 5 weeks.

Pratapdhan

• The Pratapdhan is a dual-purpose chicken breed that was developed by the AICRP on Poultry Breeding at MAHARANA PRATAP UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE & TECHNOLOGY, (MPUAT) in Udaipur, Rajasthan.
• It was developed using the Mewari, Rhode Island Red, and colored broiler breeds. The Pratapdhan is similar to the local birds of Rajasthan.
• Lays brown eggs that weigh around 52 g.
• The Pratapdhan is well accepted by farmers in Rajasthan and nearby areas.

• Breed form the Directorate of Poultry Research (ICAR), Hydrabad
  • Gramapriya
  • Sindhi
  • Krishibro
  • Vanashree
  • Vanaraja

    

• Breeds form Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fishery Science and University, Bangalore:
  • Swarnadhara

    

  • Giriraja

    

Hybrid Breeds

• Layer: Babcock 300, Hyline-WS 36, Bovans
• Broiler: Ross, Vencobb, Hybro

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- G.C. Banerjee: A Textbook of Animal Husbandry
- https://www.poultryindia.co.in/
- https://nbagr.icar.gov.in/
- https://aicrp.icar.gov.in/poultry/
- https://pdonpoultry.org/
- Wikipedia