Vol. 9, Issue 4, Part B (2024)

Author(s): Md. Anisur Rahman, Md. Rasel Rana, Beauty Rani Biswas, Md. Sajib Islam, Md. Tarek Mondal and Md. Babu Aktar

Abstract: The study was conducted to assess the qualitative traits of indigenous chickens. A total of 212 chickens were used to conduct this research and the qualitative traits were feather type, head shape, plumage colour, shank colour, comb colour and earlobe colour. The results revealed that the normal feather type (95.25%) was dominant over the naked neck. Plain head was 69.34% followed by cock’s comb and crested head shape. Diversities in plumage colour showed multicolour with highest value (25%) among golden mixed, black brown, white black, black and white. White shank (38.21%) was dominant over the black, yellow and brown. The single comb frequency was 93.87% and the others were rose, pea and cushion. The red ear lobe percentage (63.68%) was higher than the white ear lobe traits. These data might be helpful in improvement of indigenous chickens for consumer choice and restoration of genetic resources from their genetic loss.