Practices adopted for backyard poultry rearing in dungarpur district of Rajasthan

The present study covered four tehsils of Dungarpur district namely Dungarpur, Bicchiwada, Aspur and Sagwara and from each tehsil three villages and 15 poultry growers each from each village were selected for the study. Thus, a total of 180 backyard poultry growers were interviewed through a structured interview schedule to note down various feeding and breeding practices being followed by them. The Study revealed that in feeding practices (86.11%) used self-produced feed for poultry birds, 67.78 per cent respondents fed poultry bird twice a day, most of the respondents (86.11%) not used mineral mixture, 75.0 per cent were not using grits, 36.67 per cent used feeders of plastic and 32.78 per cent metallic waterer. In breeding practices, 75.56 per cent respondents were using their own male for breeding purpose.