In semi-arid areas of Southern Africa, dehydration can compromise the performance and welfare of local chickens, particularly during the growing period when confinement is curtailed and birds are left to scavenge for feed and water. The effect of water restriction on the growth performance was compared in Naked Neck (NNK) and Ovambo (OVB) chickens that are predominant in Southern Africa. A tota...

Knowledge of the genetic characteristics, origin, and local adaptation chickens is essential to identify traits required for chicken breeding programs. Chee Fah Luang are black-boned breeds reared in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Chickens an important part economy socio-culture; however, diversity, origins these two have been poorly studied. Here, we investigated gene pool, origin using mitochondrial D...

The use of antibiotics in food animals is of public health concern, because resistant zoonotic pathogens can be transmitted to humans. Furthermore, global trade with food may rapidly spread multi-resistant pathogens between countries and even continents. The purpose of the study was to investigate whether imported chicken meat and meat from locally reared chicken are potential sources for human...

BACKGROUND The molecular mechanisms underlying meat quality and muscle growth are not clear. The meat quality and growth rates of local chickens and commercial broilers are very different. The Ribo-Zero RNA-Seq technology is an effective means of analyzing transcript groups to clarify molecular mechanisms. The aim of this study was to provide a reference for studies of the differences in the me...

A severe and fatal outbreak of Tetrameres fissispina in four flocks of local chickens in Nigeria is being described. The outbreak was characterized by sudden and massive death and pathology mimicking avian influenza. Convention tests for major viral and bacterial diseases of poultry in Nigeria were all negative. T. fissispina was isolated from most carcasses submitted for post mortem examinatio...

The total poultry production of Ethiopia is estimated at 56.5 million [9], of which about 99% are raised under the traditional backyard system of management, while 1% are exotic breeds maintained under intensive management system [2]. The backyard (traditional) poultry production system is characterized by low input, low out put and periodic destruction of large proportion of the flock due to d...

The ability of the chicken to encode different aspects of spatial layout were investigated. In a first series of experiments, chickens were disoriented in a rectangular environment, where they proved able to reorient themselves using both geometric and non-geometric properties of the environment. In a second series of experiments, chickens were trained to find the central position of an arena u...