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    Performance Evaluation of Chicks, Obtained Through a Selective Breeding Programme to Introduce into Backyard Poultry Farming
    (Uva Wellassa University of Srilanka, 2011) Weerasinghe, S.M.C.; Nambapana, N.M.N.; Gunawardene, G.
    Note: See the PDF Version Poultry production has increased rapidly and tremendously in the last two decades in Sri Lanka (Gamage et al., 1993). The Department of Animal Production and Health (DAPH) — Government of Sri Lanka during the past decade through the Central Poultry Research Station (CPRS), Karandagolla, Kundasale has been distributing upgraded indigenous chicken among Backyard farmers. Breeding Indigenous cockerels with Black shaver commercial layer hens is the breeding program practiced presently (2011) at CPRS to upgrade the Indigenous chicken. Performance evaluations of resulting chicks obtained through a selective breeding of Black Shaver hens with Indigenous cockerels is the first step of the project. Program was carried out at CPRS, Karandagolla.