Review on Farmers’ Trait Preferences for Chicken Breeding Objectives in Local Chicken Ecotypes in Ethiopia
Abstract
Information on indigenous chickens breeding practices, breeding objectives and farmers’ trait preferences require for designing, planning, implementing and sustainable genetic improvement programme of indigenous chickens. Doing this, it is possible to improve the livelihoods of small scale farmers and rural developments as whole. Therefore, research results and facts of local chicken breeding were reviewed with the aim of delivering relevant information on breeding objectives and trait preferences of farmers in local chicken ecotype in Ethiopia. According to the review, breeding objectives of the farmers were egg production, cultural/religious reasons, sale incomes, and meat. Overall farmers preferred traits are comb type, plumage color, body weight, breeding ability, body conformation, egg number and size, adaptive trait and mothering ability. In generally, these traits are considered as important for selecting chicken in a market for meat and egg for consumption and for the breeding purpose in Ethiopia. Therefore, these preference traits and breeding objectives of farmers are important to improve the genetic part of chickens in the Ethiopia.
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