CONTRIBUTIONS REGARDING IMPROVEMENT OF PRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCES AT KABIR POULTRY BREED

Ştefania Elida Jitariuc, Roxana Nicoleta Raţu, Paula Viorela Druc, C.D. Roşca, M.G. Usturoi

Abstract
   Poultry meat is considered an important food for human nourishment, due to its sensorial qualities and also to protein content with high nutritive values and with a reduced input in calories. Consumption of natural products started to be one of the main aims of population, fact for which also the Romanian farmers started to implement poultry rearing in traditional system in open air.
   In the current paper we aimed to study the growing performances of Kabir poultry breed, through analysis of morph-productive indicators.
   Regarding weight the first differences with statistical significance were observed in day 28 when mean values were 543.9±8.52 g for chickens from batch Lexp-1 and 620.0±12.39g for chickens from batch Lexp-2 (p˃0.001). Referring at fodder consumption, the highest values were highlighted during period in which was administrated GROWING type fodder (period 14 – 35 days) those ones being 1508.23 g/head at batch Lexp-1 and 1597.13 g/head at batch Lexp-2.
   The obtained data resulted from the current study highlighted the fact that Kabir poultry breed present a good outturn regarding growing, being also more resistant.

Key words: weight, Kabir, fodder consumption