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Performance of Three Meat Type Chicken Farms Maintained at Different Bio-security Levels

MA Hannan
Senior Instructor (Livestock)
Youth Training Centre, Department of Youth Development, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Bagerhat, Bangladesh

MB Ahmed
Professor
Agrotechnology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna-9208, Bangladesh

SS Islam
Professor
Agrotechnology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna-9208, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

Because of the high density of the poultry flocks in current commercial production operations and the inherent disease risks associated with this type of production, proper bio-security practices are very important for successful poultry farming. The study was undertaken to investigate the productive and economic performances of poultry farms keeping three different meat types chickens under good, fair and poor bio-security conditions in south western regions of Bangladesh. The three meat type chickens under consideration were Cobb 500 broiler strain, cockerel and Sonali (RIR x Fayoumi crossbred). According to obtained marks each of one hundred (total three hundred) surveyed farms were divided into good (≥ 80%), fair (61-79%) and poor (≤ 60%) bio-secured categories. Results revealed that market body weight, total feed intake, efficiency of feed utilization, survivability, gross return and net return of Cobb 500 broiler, cockerel and Sonali farms showed higher trends from poor to good bio-secured farms. The survivability was significantly (p<0.01) higher under good than that of fair and poor bio-secured level. The highest survivability was observed in farms kept Sonali followed by cockerel and Cobb 500. The result revealed that the Sonali was the highly benefited chicken farms than Cobb 500 broiler strain and cockerel. The broiler farms were more bio-security sensitive than Sonali and cockerel farms. Hence, good bio-security practices had significant impact on productive and economic performances of all three categories of meat type chickens. It can be concluded that the meat type chickens are more sensitive to the bio-security measures of the farms and Sonali farms are more beneficial from economic point of view as compared to cockerel and Cobb 500 farms.

Keywords: Broiler; Cockerel; Economic performance; Productive performance; Sonali

Location: Department of Livestock Service (DLS) and Aftab Bahumukhi Farms Ltd (ABFL).

Start Date: 00-01-2013

End Date: 00-12-2013

Program Area: Animal Health and Management

Commodity: Chicken

Objectives:

To investigate the productive and economic performances of poultry farms keeping three different meat types chickens taken good, fair and poor bio-security measures in south western regions of Bangladesh.

Methodology:

Population and sampling- A list of commercial broiler, cockerel and Sonali chicken farms were prepared with the help of Department of Livestock Service (DLS) and Aftab Bahumukhi Farms Ltd (ABFL). The owners of the farms were treated as population of the study. The size of the sample was determined following the formula postulated by Kothari (2004). A multi-stage sampling technique was adopted. At the first stage, a purposive sampling technique was used to select only Khulna division out of the seven divisions of Bangladesh because it was provided the second highest population of chicken farms in the country. The second stage employed random selection of three (03) out of ten (10) districts of Khulna division. The third stage employed random selection of 02 upazilla from Satkhira, 03 from Khulna and 02 from Bagerhat district. Finally, three hundred different meat type chicken farms were randomly selected taking each of 40, 30 and 30 farms from Khulna, Satkhira and Bagerhat district, respectively. Data collection?- Data were collected by three ways firstly direct observation of the farms, secondly observed the record register kept by the farmers and finally interviewed the respondents through the pretested questionnaire. Data were collected January to December 2013. Specifications of bio-security levels- The selected broiler, cockerel and Sonali farms were divided into three bio-security levels; poor (Score ≤60), fair (Score 61-79) and good (Score ≥80) by using measures of bio-security standard score (Source: Third meeting 12 November, 2009 of PTDDP Bio-security Standard Development Committee, Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute, Savar, Dhaka). Data analysis- Collected data were compiled, coded, tabulated for processing and analysis in accordance with the objectives of the study. To draw a meaningful conclusion, tabular presentation of data was intensively used. The SAS 9.1.3 version was used to analyze the data (SAS, 2009). Descriptive statistics like number, percentage, mean and standard error were used in describing the selected independent and dependent variables of the study.

Source of Information: Bang. J. Anim. Sci. 2020. 49 (1): 63-70

Article Link (Online Journal): DOI: https://doi.org/10.3329/bjas.v49i1.49380

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Achievement/Findings:

The productive performances in terms of market body weight, total feed intake, efficiency of utilization of feed and survivability of three meat type chickens like Cobb 500 broiler, cockerel and Sonali crossbred farms followed similar trends being highest in good followed by fair and poor bio-secured conditions. Economic performances of three meat type chicken farms also responded similarly to the measurement of bio-security levels in the farms. The lowest survivability was observed in Cobb500 than those of cockerel and Sonali chickens in poor bio-secured conditions which revealed that the broiler farms were highly bio-security sensitive. The highest survivability of Sonali chicken in fair and poor bio-security conditions revealed that Sonali crossbred was more adaptive than Cobb500 broiler and cockerel. Net returns as well as benefit cost ratio (BCR) of Sonali crossbred farms were higher as compared to cockerel and Cobb 500 broiler farms which indicate that the Sonali was the highly benefited chicken farms than Cobb 500 and cockerel. It can be concluded that all three meat type chickens are very much sensitive to the bio- security measurement of the farm and the Sonali crossbred farming is more beneficial from economic point of view.

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