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IMPACT OF MANAGEMENT INTERVENTIONS ADOPTION ON CHICKEN PRODUCTIVITY UNDER FAMILY POULTRY PRODUCTION SYSTEM IN EGYPTIAN RURAL

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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The study was conducted in two governorates Al-Sharkia and El-Fayoum, to investigate the impact of management interventions packages on poultry productivity under family chicken production system in Egyptian rural. The management intervention packages included housing, vaccination, chick rearing, improved strains and feed supplementation. All data collected during the period from January to December 2015. The target population was smallholder keeps indigenous chicken and management interventions had been disseminated by extension services. Samples of two hundred individual householders' were randomly chosen, through semi-structured interviews with questionnaires to collect data through monthly visits. The results indicate that 45% of the smallholders adopted the management interventions package as disseminated. Majority (50%) selective components of the management interventions package were considered full packages; feed supplementation and improved strains; feed supplementation and vaccination. The highest average in flock size was observed at full package adopters (96.47 birds) followed by feed supplementation and improved strains adopters packages (73.22 birds) and feed supplementation and vaccination adopters (45.76 birds). There were highly significant differences between management intervention packages in hen's and cocks sexual maturity age, hen's age at the end of egg production period age. The highly average of egg number/hen/year was reported for chicken raised under full packages group (183.26 eggs) with highly average weight of 44.26 gm during the shortest period of 46.40 weeks. However, the lowest average of egg number/hen/year was produced by chicken raised under non-adoption packages group (86.50 eggs) with lowest average weight of 28.60 gm during longest period of 94.00 weeks. Therefore, it could be recommended that the government and development partners should design a management intervention adoption program based on the demographic and socio-economic conditions of smallholder farmers to increase indigenous chicken productivity.

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Management intervention, family chicken production system, Indigenous

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Reda

Last Name

Hamouda

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El-Sayed

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Animal Production Systems Research Department, Animal Production Research Institute, Agricultural Research Centre, Ministry of Agriculture, Dokki- Giza.

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reda_arc.system@yahoo.com

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Mohamed

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El-Menawey

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Abdel-Rahman

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Associate Professor of Poultry Management, Fac. Agric., Cairo University

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elmenawey7@yahoo.com

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38

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2

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1591

Issue Date

2018-06-01

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2018-04-30

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2018-06-27

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551

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571

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1110-5623

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2090-0570

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493

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Egyptian Poultry Science Journal

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22 Jan 2023