Free-range village chickens on the Accra Plains, Ghana: Their husbandry and productivity

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 235-248

  Aboe, P A T ^a   Boa Amponsem, K ^a   Okantah, S A ^a   Butler, E A ^b   Dorward, P T ^b   Bryant, M J ^b  

^a Animal Research Institute Ghana   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ghana; Husbandry; Productivity; Village chickens

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; EGG; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; GHANA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; EGGS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; NEWCASTLE DISEASE; POULTRY DISEASES; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

AVES; BOS TAURUS; CAPRA HIRCUS; GALLUS GALLUS; OVIS ARIES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33744960809     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-006-4356-x     Document Type: Article

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