Phenotypic Characteristics and Growth Performance of Hybrids Chicken BC1 Kamper

Abstract

Indonesia is currently in the top 10 of the world's poultry meat and egg producers. Poultry house in Indonesia is the main key in fulfilling the need for consumption of animal protein. Broiler and Layer types are the type of chicken that dominates the poultry farm sector in Indonesia, this is a serious threat to food sovereignty in Indonesia because Indonesia has not been able to provide Broiler and Layer grand parent stock as breed on several neighboring countries by doing import grand parent stock (GPS). So the objective of this research is to obtain the hybrid chickens with high egg and meat productivity yet still had the superiority of meat taste and strong body resistance like local chicken or native chicken. This Research conducted in Pusat Informasi Agroteknologi (PIAT) UGM di Kalitirto, Berbah, Sleman, D.I.Yogyakarta. In this study Back Crossess were conducted between F1 Kamper roosters and Layer hens. The growth rate of BC1 Kamper is lower than Layer and F1 Kamper and based on the statistical analyses, there are no differences of growth rate between BC1 Kamper and parental. Hybrid Chicken BC1 Kamper resulted from ♀ F1 Layer And ♂ F1 Kamper crosses has diverse phenotypic variations quantitative and qualitative data, the phenotype characters of BC1 Kamper such as ♂ F1 Kamper and the growth rate such as ♀ F1 Layer.