Vol. 12, Special Issue 10 (2023)

Author(s):
Meenaxi, Satish Chandra Biradar, Pallavi Bhatambre, Prashant G Waghmare, Shrinivas Reddy Bellur, Ravindra Dombar, MD Suranagi and SP Mamatha

Abstract:
A study was undertaken to evaluate the phenotypic characteristics of indigenous chicken under farm conditions in Bidar district of Karnataka state. The sample size comprised of two hundred and fifty desi chickens in Bidar district. The qualitative characteristics like skin colour, earlobe colour, comb colour, comb type, wattle presence or absence, plumage colour shank colour and eye colour, these characteristics were quite distinct than the other native chickens. The 80% of the birds had yellow skin and 20% had white skin. Red (52%) earlobes were most common, followed by white (20%) and a combination of red and white (32%). The comb type of indigenous chicken from Bidar district of Karnataka was predominantly single. The highest plumage colour birds were multi-coloured, brown, black and white, of these, 18% were black, 26% were brown, 16% were white and 40% were multicoloured. The most prominent shank colour was yellow (62%), followed by white (20%), black (10%) and green (8%). All of the desi chicken of Bidar district had shown 100% yellow colour eye. This study revealed distinctive variations among the desi birds of Bidar division.