Production performance of Hansli chicken in Odisha

Abstract

A total of 260 numbers Hansli day old chicks were taken for the study. For males body weight increased from 30.69 ± 0.43 g at day- old to 436.40 ± 9.69 g and 1629.42 ± 25.47 g at 8th week and 20th week respectively where as the in case of females it was increased from 30.93 ± 0.28 g to 381.35 ± 8.36 g and 1318.43 ± 23.78 g at 8th week and 20th week. The cumulative FCR increased from 6.12 in 1st week to 4.54 in 8th week and to 7.70 in 20th week. For the male, female and combined sex, respectively, the slaughter weights averaged 1331.33 ± 23.09, 1092.33 ± 12.06 and 1211.83 ± 38.11 g; dressing percentage 75.09 ± 0.07, 72.1 ± 0.004 and 73.60 ± 0.45, and evisceration percentage 70.20 ± 0.06, 66.85 ± 0.09 and 68.53 ± 0.50 respectively.