National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Economic independency is a key factor for social and cultural empowerment of women. Rearing small scale Vanaraja chicken can be promising for nutritional security and subsidiary income. Rearing indigenous chickens traditionally in Assam faces inherent constraints like low production, high mortalities hindering lucrative return. Realizing needs and to avert aberrant practices demonstrations on raising Vanaraja chickens in semi-intensive system (30 chicks to each of 40 farmers) were conducted in farmers’ backyards. During brooding, limited concentrate feeding was done for 2 weeks. Thereafter, chicks were allowed to scavenge in backyards. Kitchen-wastes, grains and mineral mixtures were supplemented for nutritional needs. Chickens were marketed upon attaining body weight of ≥1 kg (@Rs. 180/Kg). Layers were reared for 1.5 years (162 eggs/annum), thereafter, sold as cull/spent birds. Disease incidences (no major disease outbreak), mortality rates (3%) were recorded. B:C for Vanaraja and local chickens raised in traditional system were 4.8 and 2.1 respectively.
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