Poultry Production and Hachery Managment

The word poultry refer to all domestic birds kept for the production of meat and eggs for human consumption. It includes domestic chickens turkeys ducks geese quails guinea fowl ostriches etc. At present all except chickens are not economically important in Ethiopia and contribute very little (if any) to the nutritional requirement and family income of the Ethiopian population. Therefore under the present Ethiopian condition the word poultry is equivalent to domestic chicken and is synonymously used with the word chicken.