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| Performance of Two Strains of Chicken Raised Under Different Production System
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Ana Celina T. Soriano, Maria Luz L. Soriano
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Abstract:
Dual purpose chickens like hubbard and Kabir has been used in the country because of its comparable performance and quality to the native chicken, these birds can be readily ranged in open areas to forage and source out available food thus suited to the country's climatic condition. The study determined the performance of two strain of chicken raised under different production system. A total of seventy-two-day old chicks were arranged following a Completely Randomized Design where thirty-six of which are Hubbard colored broiler chicken and the remaining were those of the Kabir chicken. After twenty-five days of brooding, they were initially weighed and randomly distributed to the four treatments which includes T1- Kabir in intensive system, T2- Kabir in a free range system, T3- Hubbard broiler in an intensive system, T4- Hubbard broiler in an intensive system. Each treatment was replicated three times where six birds are allocated per replication. After 60 days of rearing, production performance of the experimental bird was recorded. Statistical analysis showed a highly significant (P<0.01) differences on the final weight, body weight gain, average daily gain and feed efficiency of the two strains raised under different production system. This implies that the two strains of chicken raised under different production system greatly affect the over-all production performance of the experimental birds.
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