Vol. 12, Issue 8 (2023)

Author(s):
L Kurrey, DP Singh, Raj Narayan, LP Manhar, AK Chaturvedani and DK Paikra

Abstract:
Two native chicken papulation, Aseel Peela, Kadaknath and one exotic papulation, CARI-Red maintained at ‘Desi fowl’ unit of CARI Izatnagar, were utilized for making full 3x3 diallel cross experiment. According to the mating plan, the hens of genetic groups were inseminated by deep intravaginal technique with the semen collected from the respective males by abdominal massage technique given by Burrows and Quinn, 1973. After two days of second insemination eggs were collected twice daily and marked with genetic group code. Total 1837 eggs were set for incubation and 1298 good chicks were obtained in single hatch comprising. Among the purebreds the higher fertility percentage was observed in AP (87.55%) followed by KN (80.55%) and CR (80%) while, in case of crossbred CR X KN had highest percentage of fertility (92%) followed by CR X AP (86.6%), KN X AP (85.89%), KN X CR (84.65%), AP X CR (81.61%) and AP X KN (80.71%). Among purebreds higher percentage of TES and FES were also observed in AP with value of 80.38 and 91.81 respectively. However, cross AP X KN had highest percentage of FES (92.04%) and cross CR X KN had highest percentage TES (77.91%).Cross CR X KN, KN X AP and CR X AP had positive percentage of heterosis and higher value were observed in case of CR X KN i.e. 22.44%, 6.49% and 15.04% for TES, FES and fertility percentage respectively.