FERTILITAS DAN DAYA TETAS TELUR AYAM KAMPUNG (Gallus domestica) DARI KOTA PADANG

Abstract

Hen’s egg is one of the source of protein that contains very high quality of nutrition, beside the hen’s egg is easy to find. Avian influenza which is very popular is lately, especially in Indonesia has been the causes of decreasing of egg’s producing more over, this case also brings some bad effect for hen’s population that die because of the ‘stamping out”. It cause hen’s population becomes decreasing and the repopulation going slowly, however to know more about the most productive chicken is still less. This research in order to know the fertility and the lay egg force of chicken (Gallus domestica) that came from the regions all around Padang. This research is descriptive the sample is take with purposive sampling way. One hundred egg from all around Padang is incubated at 37⁰C degree and at the 7^th day, the incubation is observed bout the fertility and candling. However at the 23^rd day the lay egg force of the incubation is observed. The data for this research with percentage way. The result is proving that the lay egg force in Padang is high. About 85% and the percentage of lay egg force is low, about 49,4%.

Keywords: Fertility, Local Chicken, Hatchibility, Incubation