Abstract
This study was conducted to evaluate the comparative growth, sexual maturity, survival, and feed utilization efficiency of local and White Leghorn chicken under intensive management condition. Five groups of each of the two breeds, with 200 baby chicks each, were subjected to appetite feeding with commercial layer\'s type starter\'s and grower\'s ration at day old to eight weeks and eight weeks to twenty weeks of age respectively in a completely randomised design with 5 replication. The results showed that mean daily feed intake and total feed consumption from hatching to maturity were significantly higher (P Key words/phrases : Growth, intensive, local chicken, survival, White Leghorn SINET: Ethiopian Journal of Science Vol. 27 (2) 2004: 161–164
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