A comparative study on production efficiency of brown and white pullets

Even though the laying hen industry in Kuwait is one of the most important animal industries, it covers only 55% of local egg consumption, and the remainder is imported resulting in increase in egg prices. In addition, a major problem that the egg industry is facing is the low quality of the eggshells, resulting in a large loss to the industry. Therefore, it is important to use a strain of laying hens that performs the best under local environmental conditions and produce high quality eggs so that the producers can reduce production cost and be able to increase profitability and compete with the imported products in both quality and price. Hens that produce brown eggs are more efficient and brown eggs have better egg quality, including shell quality. Therefore, the major objective of our study is to compare the production efficiency of strains that are used for production of both white and brown eggs under local Kuwaiti environmental conditions. Production efficiency of pullets is what will be reported in the present paper.