Review of chicken productive and reproductive performance and its challenges in Ethiopia

Figures & data

Table 1. Productivity, egg weights, and hatchability rates of exotic chickens in Ethiopia.

Breed type	Egg No./hen/yr	Egg weight/ g/	Hatchability Rate}	Study Site	Author/s
WLH	173, 140.20	52.1	76.1	Tigray region, North Gondar, Zone	Getu et al. (2014); Matawork (2018)
RHODE ISLAND RED	185, 118.6	52.5	67.9	Tigray region	Getu et al. (2014); Matawork (2018); Litigebew et al. (2021)
Fayoumi	144	43.5	85.8	Tigray region North Gondar zone	Getu et al. (2014)
B.Brown	292.4, 266.32	57.7,60.27		Mekelle, Debre zeit	Harpal Singh et al. (2013); Yirgu et al. (2018)
Isa Brown	276.1	58.75		Debre Zeit	Yirgu et al. (2018)

WLH – White Leghorn, RIR-Rhode Island Red, Brown – Bovans Brown.

Table 2. Mortality rates of exotic chickens in Ethiopia.

	Breeds
Mortality rate	Fayoumi	Rhode Island Red	White leghorn	Author
Chickens	67.9	33.3	48.8	Getu et al. (2014)
Pullets	22.4	27.3	48.3
Layers	35.3	16.3	21.5
			8.1(60 days)	Tadesse (2015)

Table 3. Productive performance of indigenous chicken in Ethiopia.

	Indigenous	Author/s
Egg weight/ g/	38,48	Bibi et al. (2021); Bekele and Shigute (2019b)
Hatchability rate	70,70	Bibi et al. (2021); Alemneh and Getabalew (2019)
Egg/hen/yr.	30–60	Bekele and Shigute (2019b)
Age at first egg-laying	180, 175.5	Bibi et al. (2021); Alemneh and Getabalew (2019)

Table 4. Major constraints of chicken productive and reproductive performance in Ethiopia.

Constraints	Frequency	Percent
Disease	2	1
Predator & disease	47	26
Predator, disease & financial problems	19	11
Predator, disease & land scarcity	60	33
Predator, disease, lack of labor & financial problems	14	8
Feed shortage & predator	38	21

Source: Matawork (2018) and Alemneh and Getabalew (2019).

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Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.