| dc.contributor.advisor | Dr. Mst. Afroza Khatun | |
| dc.contributor.author | EQBAL, MD. JAFAR | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-25T04:14:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-04-25T04:14:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-06 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/839 | |
| dc.description | Bangladesh is the highest densely populated country in the world having over 150
million people with 1015 persons per square kilometer (BBS, 2011) with a high
population growth rate; almost 75% people of the country live in rural areas. Over 80%
of the rural households in Bangladesh rear poultry in small flock with an average of 6.8
per holding under scavenging system (Saleque, 2001). Village chickens are also known
as rural, indigenous, scavenging, traditional or family chickens, and have various names
in local languages. Poultry are widely acknowledged as the livestock of the poor, and
poultry production is part of most smallholder farming systems. Guèye, (2002)
mentioned that 85 % of rural households in South Asia keep chickens or other types of
poultry. Family poultry (FP) are important and contribute income to poor farmers,
especially women in low-income food-deficit countries Gueye, (2002). Village poultry
can be found in all developing countries and play a vital role in many poor rural
households Alders et al. (2004); Alexander et al. (2003); Copland and Alders (2005);
Spradbrow, (1994). Landless families in Bangladesh form 20% of the population, and
they keep between five to seven chicken per households (Fattah, 1999). In LIFDC
countries, family poultry-produced meat and eggs are estimated to contribute 20 to 30
%of the total animal protein supply (Alam, 1997; Branckaert, 2000) taking second place
to milk products (38%), which are mostly imported. It is widely accepted that village
chickens are important in breaking the vicious cycle of poverty, malnutrition and disease
(Roberts and Gunaratne, 1992). The household is the primary unit within the smallholder
farming system, with age and gender determining the division of labor. A major issue of
concern for this sector, which provides support to millions of rural households having
highly vulnerable livelihood, have decline in population in recent years. According to the
livestock census of 2003 and 2007, the number of backyard poultry birds declined from
238 million in 2003 to 153 million in 2007. In Bangladesh, although livestock reared by
most of the rural people provide food security and sustainable livelihoods, but back yard
poultry sector is not adequately paid attention. Livestock services to the rural livestock
keepers are considered to be very poor, insufficient and infrequent; the majority of the
people who deprived from these services are poor (Nasrin and Hafezur, 2003). | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | An exploratory research was carried out at farmer’s households based on household
survey using a variety of data collection methods/tools (semi-structured interview, focus
group discussion and direct observation) to better understand the ground situation of
smallholder family poultry (FP) rearing system in the rural settings in Bangladesh. Total
n=97 poultry keeping households were purposively selected for household survey
intended to gain detailed information on flock composition and other related issues to
backyard poultry rearing practices. In this study it was found that about 77% of the
village family rear poultry with an average around 6 per holding. Self consumption
(85%) is the apex use of FP rearing along with little amount for sell and hobby. There
was no training and access to credit facility. It was found that majority of the households
share the same house for night shelter of chicken with other poultry and livestock species
and even with their own house. Mud was the principal material for building poultry
house with bamboo and wood, in a very few cases concrete made house was observed.
Only 13% of the households provided nest box for hens and option for ventilation in the
poultry houses was totally absent. The major feed sources for chickens were household
wastages, earthworms, insects, seeds, green leaves and other plant materials through
scavenging with little supplementation of broken rice, rice husk, paddy, wheat, maize
crust. It was observed that the sources of drinking water for FP are tube-well canal that
villagers used for bathing and washing utensils and clothes, pond, drain, sewerage, and
any water logging. The degree of vaccination to the FP was very low (6.26%) or
negligible. only 4% of the household received service for their poultry from veterinary
surgeon. Poultry keepers mostly used bamboo made broom (85%) for cleaning the
poultry house, and never used the chemical disinfectant for cleaning the shed. The study
also disclose that the poultry keepers have very limited idea about the transmission of
diseases from birds to them, the summation of not harmful and no idea comprise more
than 85% of the respondents . It clearly indicates that the rural FP rearers are in high
chance to be infected with inter-communicable poultry diseases like avian influenza. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | HAJEE MOHAMMAD DANESH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY, DINAJPUR. | en_US |
| dc.subject | NATIVE FREE RANGING CHICKEN | en_US |
| dc.subject | Time frame work and site of the study | en_US |
| dc.subject | Hatching, criteria and source of replacement for FP | en_US |
| dc.title | CHARACTERIZATION OF NATIVE FREE RANGING CHICKEN REARING SYSTEM IN RURAL SETTINGS OF RAJSHAHI | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
