POULTRY SPECIES

Chicken

• Gallus gallus

• Southeast Asia; ca. 6,000 BC

• Meat and eggs; as game, ornament, pet

Mallard

• Anas platyrhynchos

• Mallard in China; ca. 2,500 BC

Muscovy

• Cairina moschata

• Muscovy in S. America; ca. the preColumbus era

• Meat and eggs; for feathers for stuffing pillows and thermal wear; as ornament, pet

Turkey

• Meleagris gallopavo

• America; ca. the preColumbus era

• Meat

Greylag

• Anser anser

• Europe, Asia; ca. the early Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilization

• Meat; for control of garden pests; as house guard, ornament, pet

Swan

• Ansercygnoides

• Europe, Asia; ca. the early Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilization

• Meat; for control of garden pests; as house guard, ornament, pet

Quail (Japanese)

• Coturnix japonica

• Japan; ca. 11th century

• Eggs and meat

Pigeon

• Columba livia

• Uncertain origin

• Meat from young (squab); as pets and

Guinea fowl

• Numida meleagris

• Africa; ca. 1,500 BC

• Meat and eggs

Pheasant

• Phaseanus colchicus

• Africa; ca. early Roman civilization

• Meat and eggs

Ostrich

• Struthio camelus

• Africa; ca. 1900s

• Meat and eggs

Animalia

Kingdom

Chordata

Phylum

Aves

Class

Galiformes

Order

Phasianidae

Family

Gallus gallus

Genus

White leghorn

Common commercialized egg laying breed

1. Heating Control

2. Health Indicator

3. Sexual Atrractiuon

3 functions of the comb of chickens

• Rhode Island Reds

• Leghorn

• Faverolles

• Barnevelders

• Ayam Cemani

Breeds with single type of comb

Sicilian Buttercup

Breeds with buttercup type of comb

• Selected bantam types

Breeds with cushion type of comb

• Buckeyes

• Ameraucanas

• Brahmas

Breeds with pea type of comb

• Malay

• Yokohama

Breeds with strawberry type of comb

• Le Fleche

• Sultan

• Crevecoeur

Breeds with V comb

• Silkies

• Orloffs

Breeds with walnut type of comb

• Dominiques Wyandottes

• Rose-combed bantams

Breeds with rose type of comb

• Empordanesa

• Penedesenca

Breeds with carnation type of comb

• Leghorn

• Lakenvelder

• Polish

• Wyandotte

• Silkie

• Rhode Island Red

• Plymouth Rock

• Australorp

• Orpington

• Black Copper Maran

• Welsummer

• Penedesenca

• Easter Egger

• Ameraucana

• Araucana

• Easter egger

• Oliver egger

New Hampshire

• Light red plumage color, yellow skin, and a single comb

• Dual Purposes Presence of Dark pin feathers and hair

• 200 Eggs per year | 50-60 g 3.8 Kg Rooster | 2.9 Kg Hens

Cornish

• Cornwall, England

• Dark Cornish, White Mixed Cornish, and Dark Yellow Cornish.

• Dual-type

• Sire breeds because of their oblong-shaped body and wide and muscular breast.

• 100 - 120 Eggs per year | 55- 60 g 4.8 Kg Rooster | 3.6 Kg Hen

Barred Plymouth Rock

• Massachusetts, USA

• Feathers grow fast with bars of white and black running crosswise giving the bird a gray appearance.

• Egg laying chicken

• 200 Brown shelled Eggs per year| 58 grams 3.9 Kg both Rooster and Hen

White Plymouth Rock

• Massachusetts, USA

• Light red plumage color, yellow skin, and a single comb

• Meat purpose

• When mated with Rhode Island Red males, they produce chicks which can automatically be sexed at day-old.

Rhode Island Red

• Rhode Island, USA

• They possess red earlobes and legs and yellow skin

• 200 brown shelled eggs per year | 55-60 grams 4 Kg Rooster | 3 Kg hen

White Leghorn

• Leghorn Port, Italy

• Small body size, single comb, and white plumage, earlobes, shanks, and beak.

• Eggs produced per layer range from 200 to 250 in one year | 55 - 60 Kg 2.7 Kg Rooster | 2 Kg Hens

Uniform

Hook

Short

Saddle

Muscovy

BRAZILLIAN/ BARBARY DUCKS

• White-winged black, blue, and pure white

• Bills are yellow and black with some red, legs are yellow \

• Their meat is dark in color and is preferred for their "gamey” flavor.

• Egg is white 4.5-6.4 Kg Drakes| 2.3-3.1 Kg Ducks

1. Pekin

2. Khaki Campbell

3. Indian Runner

PEKING/BEIJING DUCKS

PEKIN

• Their bills and legs are deep orange in color, creamy white feathers and yellow skin

• popular for their high fat carcass for special cooking preparations

• 4 Kg Drakes| 3.6 Kg Ducks

KHAKI CAMPBELL

• Female has warm khaki color throughout the head, with the neck and wings in a slightly lighter shade.

• Drake's head, neck, stern, and wing-bar plumage is a lustrous green bronze with the remainder of the body having an even shade of warm khaki

• Capable of producing 300 or more eggs in a year

INDIAN RUNNER

• Three varieties are the fawn and white, the black, and the chocolate, body is almost perpendicular to the ground when in standing position

• Egg Purposes 150-200 Eggs per year

• 600-800 mm long 1.6-2.2 Kg Drakes | 600-700 mm long 1.4-2.0 Kg Ducks

ITIK PINAS

PATEROS DUCK

• Improved Philippine Mallard Duck Breed

• 1.5-1.75 Kg Drakes | 1.25-1.5 Kg Ducks

• Egg Production 200-270 | 65-70 grams

Bolinao

Joloano

• Red to red-orange plumage color

• Tail is black or black with white Pea comb with bright earlobes

• 2.0 to 2.5 kg Rooster | 1.8-2.0 Kg Hens

Paraokan

• Black in color

• Tail is black with some white feathers at the base Long-legged, stand upright, with yellow to gray shank

• Pea comb with bright earlobes

• 2.0 to 2.5 kg Rooster | 1.8-2.0 Kg Hens

Banaba

• Yellow-red plumage

• Black wing and tail feathers

• Single comb and red earlobes

• Shank are slate in colored

• 1.7 to 2.0 kg Rooster | 1.5-1.8 Kg Hens

Zampen

Darag

• BOLINAO

• BANABA

• CAMARINES

• PARAOAKAN

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• DARAG

• BOHOLANO

BREEDS AND VARIETIES OF NATIVE CHICKEN IN VISAYAS

• ZAMPEN

• JOLOANO

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