This value addition can promote Kadaknath backyard poultry farming leading to women empowerment and socio-economic upliftment in rural India. Findings contribute towards enhancing public awareness on the health benefits of black chicken meat and further scientific investigations. Materials and methods ...
Boxes represent the main activities leading to the production of chicken meat (blue: upstream of chicken farming; yellow: chicken farming; green: downstream of chicken farming). Arrows represent the matter flows (feed, animals, meat) in the supply chain. The generic structure of the assessment...
Bianca di Saluzzo (BS) and Bionda Piemontese (BP) are two Italian chicken breeds, mainly reared for meat production, primarily in antibiotic-free farming. However, technical information on their growth pattern is still missing. At hatching, 150 unsexed chicks of each breed were weighed, labeled...
It would be interesting to select and improve the breed for egg productivity to valorise it in alternative production systems, such as organic farming. Within the framework of the aforementioned project, a crossbreeding trial of the Utrerana breed with heavy breeds (Brahma and Plymouth Rock) was...