LPM

Learn about poultry rearing systems, including intensive, semi-intensive, and scavenging systems, with their key characteristics, housing, feeding, health, and management practices.

Learn the desired characteristics of indigenous poultry for rural farming, including plumage color, morphology, temperament, productivity, disease resistance, tropical adaptability, and self-propagation.

Pigeon breeds, their characteristics, and uses in racing, flying, and meat production, including Homer, White King, and Swiss Mondaine pigeons.

Guinea fowl varieties, including Pearl, White, and Lavender, with their distinctive characteristics, appearance, and uses in poultry production.

Learn about Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) breeds, characteristics, meat production, egg composition, and their importance in poultry production and research.

Learn about major goose breeds, including Toulouse, Emden, African, Chinese, Canada, Buff, Pilgrim, Sebastopol, and Egyptian geese, with key breed characteristics.

Learn about turkey breeds and varieties, including Broad Breasted Bronze, Beltsville White, White Holland, Narragansett, and major hybrid turkeys, with key characteristics.

Learn about duck breeds, including egg, meat, ornamental, indigenous, and hybrid types, with key characteristics and examples.

Learn about Indian chicken breeds, including 21 indigenous breeds registered with ICAR-NBAGR, their characteristics, varieties, and important features.

Learn the incubation period and age at sexual maturity of chicken, duck, goose, turkey, quail, pigeon, ostrich, emu, and other poultry species.

Learn common poultry terms for chickens, ducks, turkeys, quail, guinea fowl, geese, pigeons, and swans, including names for young, male, and female birds.

Learn about chicken hybrids, including common egg-type and meat-type hybrids, their production through crossbreeding, heterosis, hybrid vigor, and breeding characteristics.