The translucency of eggshells is a ubiquitous appearance problem caused by moisture
translocation and the accumulation of egg contents into the eggshell ultrastructure. Previous …

Animal growth is a complex and dynamic process that involves physiological and
morphological changes from hatching to maturity. It is defined as the increase in body size …

The study was conducted in Sheka Zone to characterize phenotypic traits of indigenous
chicken populations. Multi-stage purposive random sampling technique was used to collect …

Objective Our study provides information on phenotypes of local chickens and guinea fowl
and their body measures as well as on major genes in local chickens in northern Ghana …

Nowadays, the high demand for village chickens in Malaysia leads to the fraudulent
substitution of indigenous chickens with other cheaper counterparts. Discriminating different …

The logistic, Gompertz, Richards and asymmetric logistic growth curve models were fitted to
body weight data of local Ghanaian chickens and French SASSO T44 chickens. All four …

Information on the genetic architecture of the production traits of indigenous African chicken
is limited. We performed a genome-wide association study using imputed Affymetrix Axiom® …

Egg production performance of 571 local Ghanaian chickens and 107 SASSO T44 chickens
kept under improved management conditions were analysed. Average egg weight, hen-day …

Qingyuan partridge chicken is one of the most well‐known Chinese indigenous yellow
broilers. In breeding programmes, five traits are usually selected when the chickens are 105 …

Efforts that can be made to improve the performance of native chickens are by crossing them
with Bangkok chickens. The results of crosses between Kampung chickens and Bangkok …