Evidences indicate that all the imported breeds of chickens performed well under the intensive management system. However, exotic breeds produce around 250 eggs per year/hen each weighing around 60g in Ethiopia. The egg production potential of local chickens is between 30-60 eggs per year/hen with an average weight of 38g each under village management condition. Attempts have been made to introduce different exotic poultry breeds to small holder farming systems of Ethiopia to improve the existing low performance of indigenous chickens. The majority of chicken production systems remain as village production which consists of the indigenous breeds widely. These are large scale commercial, small scale commercial and village poultry production systems. The poultry sector in Ethiopia can be characterized into three major production systems based on selected parameters like breed, flock size, housing, feeding, health, technology, bio-security and others. Poultry is the largest group of livestock species in the world in which chickens largely dominate the flock composition.
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