Meat Production from Indigenous, Crossbred And Imported Poultry in Uganda

Abstract

From trials carried out to gain a detailed knowledge of the characteristics of the indigenous poultry of Uganda and assess the improvements to be brought about by upgrading with imported breeds, data on the meat production qualities of surplus cockerels have been collected, and are presented in this paper. Very little information is available on the performance of indigenous and crossbred Cockerels kept under good conditions of management, and the aims of this paper are to examine and compare growth rates, food consumption, feed conversion, killing out percentages and costs of production of meat from indigenous, crossbred and imported cockerels in Uganda