Table 1 Management pattern and housing systems used by farmers for chicken production
Management system | Name of local states (%) | Total |
Ekiti | Lagos | Ogun | Ondo | Oyo |
Intensive | 43 (97.7) | 40 (95.2) | 32 (76.2) | 38 (86.4) | 41 (83.7) | 194 (87.8) |
Semi intensive | | 2 ( 4.8) | 8 (19.1) | 4 ( 9.1) | 3 ( 6.1) | 17 ( 7.7) |
Extensive | 1 ( 2.3) | | 2 ( 4.8) | 2 ( 4.6) | 5 (10.2) | 10 ( 4.5) |
Housing system | | | | | | |
Deep litter system | 24 (65.6) | 9 (32.1) | 15 (33.5) | 20 (55.6) | 18 (46.2) | 86 (48.6) |
Battery cage | 10 (28.6) | 19 (67.9) | 22 (56.4) | 12 (33.3) | 16 (41.0) | 79 (44.6) |
Wooden boxes | 1 ( 2.9) | | 2 ( 5.1) | 1 ( 2.8) | 1 ( 2.6) | 5 ( 2.8) |
Woven hutches | | | | 3 ( 8.3) | 4 (10.3) | 7 ( 4.0) |
In the manage system, “intensive” means that chicken was raised fully in confined house or cages. Also “Semi intensive” is that chicken are confined to a certain area with access to shelter. The “extensive” infers under free-rage or scavenging conditions or may having rudimentary shelters. In housing system, “deep litter system” use fully confined with floor space allowance of 3 to 4 birds/m2 within a house, but can move around freely. The “battery cage” adopted by commercial egg layer industry means that chicken were kept through out their life in cages.