The Beginning of Laying Hens in Indonesian

 

Laying Hens

Chicken or chicken wild forest had been maintained by Indonesian society since ancient times as a part of their lives that are at that time very close to the wild. Once merging with nature, so that they are called to live in an agrarian pattern. Among the specifications it is natural that blends the wild chickens that have become part of Indonesian public life at the time. Thus, the presence of the wild chicken is taken for granted by the people of Indonesia.

Indonesian Local Chicken

By the early 1900s, the wild chickens remain in place, familiar with the pattern of life of rural communities. In the period of the 1940s, people began to recognize other than chicken chicken wild. From here, one can begin to distinguish the chicken dutch (The Dutch colonized Indonesia at the time) with wild chickens in Indonesia. Wild chicken is then called a local chicken (chicken) because of the existence of the chicken is in the countryside. While the chicken is called chicken dutch country. Such chicken can still be found in the 1950s that maintained by some chicken fans.

By the end of the 1980s, many Indonesian people do not know the classification of chicken. When it is, the nature of chickens regarded as chicken only. When eggs are good to eat, the meat is also good to eat. However, that opinion was not true. Domestic chicken, or better known as egg-laying chicken turned out a lot, but the meat tastes bad.

Indeed, the first chicken came in and started breeding in the period it is the white leghorn chicken laying thin. Generally, it is used as chicken broilers after expiration of productive spawning. Antipathy towards the chicken laying hens meat long enough until the end of the 1990s. When it began to spread broiler farm which is specifically for chicken. While laying endowment or brown laying hens also began menjamur.Dari where the community began to realize that the chicken had laying classification as a reliable and tasty chicken. At this time also began a sharp rivalry between the local eggs and chicken laying hens meat with local eggs and local chicken meat. Finally, chocolate eggs began on the wind, while the local chicken local eggs began slumped and only used as a traditional recipe alone. Fierce competition is what signifies the rise of poultry farm.

Local chickens is laying eggs and meat can be eaten. but can not be classified as a dual-purpose chickens commercially superior. The reason, the genetic basis of local chickens and laying hens is indeed differ greatly. Chicken appear as it is with remarkable adaptability due to have fused with the pattern of community life. Thus, do not be surprised if the local chickens are able to anticipate climate change compared with laying hens. Only the genetic capability that distinguishes this production although both chicken broiler chickens was also derived from the wild in Asia and Africa.