What is polutry farming

Poultry farming is done to raise domestic fowl for egg production and chicken meat. Therefore, improved poultry breeds are developed and farmed to produce layers for eggs and broilers for meat by cross-breeding programmes.

The cross-breeding programmes between Indian (indigenous, for example, Aseel) and foreign (exotic, for example, Leghorn) breeds for variety improvement are focused on to develop new varieties for the following desirable traits—

1. Number and quality of chicks.
2. Dwarf broiler parent for commercial chick production.
3. Summer adaptation capacity/tolerance to high temperature.
4. Low maintenance requirements;
5. Reduction in the size of the egg-laying bird with ability to utilize more fibrous cheaper diets formulated using agricultural by-products.

Chickens are raised up to 6-7 weeks in the poultry farm. They are fed with vitamin rich supplementary feed for good growth rate and better feed efficiency.