This section is mandated to carry out research on various aspects of housing and management for different species of poultry, post-graduate teaching, training and consultancy services in the areas of poultry housing and management. This section has Turkey Research Unit, Emu Research Unit and a laboratory equipped with poultry house gas analyzer and dust analyzer.
Research Activities & Achievements
Designing of poultry farm appliances:
- Designed, got fabricated and tested battery brooders, individual and colony laying cages, feeders and waterers as well as egg-setters and pedigree hatching boxes for Japanese quails.
- Designed, got fabricated and tested California colony laying cages for commercial layers.
Optimizing floor space requirements for diversified poultry:
- Optimized floor space requirements of meat type and egg type Japanese quails.
- Optimized floor space requirement and brooder cage density of commercial broiler chickens.
- Optimized brooder house floor space requirement of turkey chicks/poults.
Development of management practices for diversified poultry species:
- Standardized brooding and rearing practices of broilers, Japanese quails and turkey chicks.
- Evaluated suitable economically viable brooding methods for diversified poultry chicks.
- Evaluated different rearing systems for chickens and turkey.
- Evaluated performance of superior layers, broilers, turkey, quail and native fowl crosses at high altitude (~2000 m) in the Kumaon region aimed at promoting hill poultry production.
Development of low-cost poultry houses for promoting small-scale rural poultry production:
- Evaluated traditional building materials based on local resources for cheaper but durable poultry houses.
- Designed, got fabricated and tested low-cost poultry houses for small rural farmers.
- Evaluated performance and economics of commercial broilers and layers in conventional and low-cost poultry houses.
Assessment of emission of gases in poultry houses:
- Assessed emission of different poultry house gases, such as ammonia, methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide, carbon monoxide and dust particles in different poultry production systems during varied environmental conditions.
- Developed strategies to reduce poultry house pollutants for eco-friendly poultry production.
Teaching Activity
Post-graduate Courses
| Course Code | Title of the Course | Theory/Practical | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSC-501 | Poultry Housing and Management | Theory | S. Majumdar |
| PSC-502 | Poultry Housing and Management | Practical | S. Majumdar |
| PSC-503 | Incubation and Hatching | Theory | Jagbir Singh Tyagi |
| PSC-504 | Incubation and Hatching | Practical | Jagbir Singh Tyagi |
| PSC-601 | Advances in Poultry Housing & Equipment | Theory | S.K. Bhanja |
| PSC-602 | Advances in Poultry Housing & Equipment | Practical | S.K. Bhanja |
| PSC-603 | Advances in Incubation & Hatching | Theory | S.K. Bhanja |
| PSC-604 | Advances in Incubation & Hatching | Practical | S.K. Bhanja |
| PSC-607 | Advances in Poultry Management | Theory | S.K. Bhanja |
| PSC-608 | Advances in Poultry Management | Practical | S.K. Bhanja |
Technology Developed
- Low-cost poultry houses for small scale rural poultry farming: Designed using locally available building materials like mud, bricks, wood, bamboo, rice straw, terracotta tiles, tarpoline and plastic sheets for both broilers and layer chickens.
- California type colony cages for layers: Designed and fabricated to provide better welfare and improvement in production potential, suitable for housing 5-6 layers in one cage.
Turkey Research Unit
This unit has two turkey varieties viz., Broad Breasted White and Black plumage.
Research Activities:
- Maintenance, evaluation and propagation of turkey, primarily for meat production.
- Development of feeding and farm management practices for growing poults, toms and hens under commercial and rural conditions.
- Preparation of turkey diets from non-conventional feed ingredients.
- Study of biochemical parameters as affected by age, housing and nutrition.
- Artificial insemination.
Major Achievements:
- Requirements of protein and energy for growing poults up to 8th week of age under cage rearing system have been worked out.
- Different floor density for growing poults up to 8th week of age under cage rearing system has been worked out.
- Feed supplemented with 0.5% neem leaf powder boosted immunity in turkey poults and might substitute antibiotics in the feed.
- High immune diet enhanced egg weight, chick weight, fertility and hatchability and elicited better immune response in turkey breeders.
- Poultry house pollutants estimated for different rearing systems during varied seasons.
- Designing and construction of California type colony laying cages for White Leghorn layers.
Emu Research Unit
Emu has been introduced recently at this Institute and is in the process of regeneration to get required flock for initiating R&D activities on its feeding, management and health care practices including optimization of artificial insemination technique for this species.
Faculty Profile
| S.No. | Name | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Samir Majumdar | Principal Scientist & Head |
| 2 | Dr. Subrat Kumar Bhanja | Principal Scientist & I/C Layer Farm |
