CHAPTER ONE
Chickens are already an integral part of human life. It
is one of the major sources of animal meat, aside from pork and fish. Gallus belongs to the family of
Phasianidae i.e. male chicken and order of Galliformes. The common name for Gallus is “Cockerel “or “Rooster”
(Linnaeus, 1758).
Gallus
gallus is widely distributed all over
the world. The oldest term is “cock”, from old English cock is in general use
as the name of a male of other species of birds, for example “Cock
Sparrow”. The term, “rooster”,
originated from the United States; In Northern America, Australia and New
Zealand the term used is almost always “rooster”, occasionally cockerel. While
in the United Kingdom and Ireland the older term cockerel is more widely used.
Gallus species are recognized by the action of perching aloft
to sleep at night. It guards the general area where his hens are nestling and
sound a distinctive alarm call if predators are nearby. Cockerel is generally known as a strong
fighting chicken, during the daytime, he often sits on a high perch, usually
4-5 feet off the ground to serve as a lookout for his flock.
Cockerels utilize various kinds of food
resources available in their habitat (Adeyemo et al, 1994). Many of the species
are of great economic importance in both Poultry and chicken rearing.
The aims of this research were,
To replace the soymeal with Mucuna powder in standard poultry feed to estimate its acceptance
level by the chicken,
To reduce the demand for soymeal in the poultry feed
milling industry,
To enable the masses know the
usefulness or benefit which can be derived from various uses of Mucuna.
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