Table 1.
Respondents and owners’ profiles in the study area.
Table 2.
Summary of PCA, cluster analysis, and body index values for indigenous chickens.
Fig 1.
Variations of comb type among Indigenous chickens.
Fig 2.
Variations of comb type among Indigenous chickens.
Fig 3.
Indigenous chickens’ morphological indices based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA).
Fig 4.
White ear lobe and brown plumage color hen (A), and white ear lobe and black-laced white plumage color hen/female/ (B).
Fig 5.
Shows inconsistency in plumage color and ear lobe.
(A), Brown ear lobe, black plumage color, pea combed type, and red eye color, (B), white plumage color, red ear lobe, and eye with single comp type).
Table 3.
Qualitative traits of indigenous chicken in the study areas.
Table 4.
Linear body measurements of male and female chicken populations (N = 224).
Table 5.
Pearson correlations of body weight and linear body measurements of the study area.