Investigation on basic indexes of laying productivity of guinea fowls from local Bulgarian population
Keywords:
Guinea fowl, Bulgarian local population, egg productivity, laying intensity, feed conversionAbstract
Egg intensity and compound feed consumption of a local Guinea fowl population during two
consecutive productive years were established. The average laying intensity for a 30-week period in
the first year was 70.11% (139.71 eggs) and in the second – 44.22% (89.70 eggs). The feed conversion
was 162 g/egg (3.88 kg*
kg egg mass-1) during the first and 311 g/egg (7.42 kg*
kg egg mass-1) in the
second period respectively. The established high egg intensity is a prerequisite for successful selection
by laying capacity.
References
Abdul-Rahman, I. I., & Adu, Y. E. (2017). The role of the rural farmer in guinea fowl Numida meleagris value chain, a case study of the Tolon district. Livestock Research for Rural Development,Vol 29, Article 72., http://www.lrrd.org/lrrd29/4/iddr29072.html.
Аngelov, A. (2019). Productive characteristic of local population of Guinea fowls (Numida meleagris) in R. Bulgaria. PhD Thesis, Plovdiv, pp. 239 (Bg).
Ayeni, J . S. O. (1980). The biology and utilization of the Helmet Guineafowl (Numida meleagris galeata Pallas) in Nigeria. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Ayeni, J. S. (1983). Studies of Grey Breasted Helmet Guineafowl (Numida meleagris galeata Pallas) in Nigeria. World’s Poultry Science Journal, 39(2), 143-151.
Ayorinde, K. L. (1991). Guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) as a protein supplement in Nigeria. World’s Poultry Science Journal, 47(1), 21-26.
Ayorinde, K. L., & Okaeme, A. N. (1984). All year guinea fowl-how feasible. African Farming and Food Processing, 21-22.
Ayorinde, K. L., Ayeni, J. S. O., & Oluyemi, J. A. (1989). Laying characteristics and reproductive performance of four indigenous helmeted guinea fowl varieties (Numida meleagris galeata Pallas) in Nigeria. Tropical Agriculture, 66(3), 277-280.
Baеza, E., Lessire, M., Berri, C., & Juin, H. (2001). Compared carcass and meat characteristics of label and standard fowl. In: Proceedings of the XV European Symposium on the Quality of Poultry Meat, September 9-12, Kusadusi - Turkey, 73-78.
Hien, O. C. (2002). Effect de l’amelioration des conditions sanitaires sur le development testiculaire la LH et la ponte la pintade du Burkina Faso. Dissertation, University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Gerzilov, V. (2011). Egg productivity in some fowl strains from the national gene pool reared under biofriendly conditions. Agrarni Nauki, 3(6), 105-112.
Kabakchiev, M., Alexieva, D., Genchev, A., Nikolova, M., & Gerzilov, V. (2014). Poultry breeding, Acad. Publ. Agric. Univ. – Plovdiv (Bg).
Maccarthy, D. D. (1974). Commercial breeding, management and marketing of guinea fowl. In: Proceedings, 1974 Australian Poultry Science Convention. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. World Poul. Sc. Assoc., pp. 307-309.
Marinov, B. (2016). Feeding of Guinea fowls, In: Todorov, N., Marinov, B., Ilchev, Penkov, D., Georgieva, V., Ganchev, G. & Chobanova S. (2016) Applied feeding of domestic animals (Bg).
Nickolova, M. (2009). Investigation on main reproductive characteristics in guinea fowl (Numida meleagris), Agricultural Sciences, vol. 1, issue 2, Plovdiv, 2009, p.p. 55-61.
Nikolova, M. (2013): The Guinea fowl - a promising species of farm bird, Ptizevedstvo, 4, pp. 5-8 (Bg).
Royter, Y. (1991). Breeding work with guinea fowl. Ptisevodstvo, 12, 36-38.
Royter, Y., & Guseva, N. (1987). Trade standard for guinea fowl farming and rearing technology. Ptisevodstvo, 9, 31-33. (Ru).
Royter, Y., & Arutyunyan, W. (1990). Selection of guinea fowl for parental flock. Ptisevodstvo, 12, 16-18. (Ru).
Swierczewska, E., Wezyk, S., & Horbanczuk, J. (1999). Poultry farming Ed. Hoza Warsaw (Po).
Teneva, A., Gerzilov, V., Lalev, M., Lukanov, H., Mincheva, N., Oblakova, M., Petrov, P., Hristakieva, P., Dimitrova, I., & Periasamy, K. (2015). Current status and phenotypic characteristics of Bulgarian poultry genetic resources. Animal Genetic Resources/Resources génétiques animales/Recursos genéticos animales, 56, 19-27. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S2078633615000016.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
Categories
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Bulgarian Journal of Animal Husbandry
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
