Golden Montazah

An attempt was made to develop a variety of chickens, which could be utilized as a foundation stock for the process of establishing a hybrid for egg production. The Golden Montazah is the name given to the new variety which had been developed in the Montazah Poultry Research Farm from a cross between the Rhode Island Red and Dokki4, using systems of breeding coupled with selection. The down color of the Golden Montazah chicks is yellowish red. Sex could be easily detected at hatching. Light bars cross each feather. While the red and the light bars of the males are of approximately equal width, in the female the light bars are approximately one-half of the width of the red bars. This variety of chickens has a Colombian pattern. The beak is yellowish brown; the shanks and the skin are yellow. This variety has a single comb and red ear lobes. The Golden Montazah was found to be superior to Dokki4 with respect to average annual egg production and average egg weight. This variety of chickens could be more adapted to the unfavorable conditions imposed in the Egyptian farm.

Reference:

Taha.H.Mahmoud et al. Agric.Res.Rev.June, 1974:51-60.. (submitted by Prof. Dr. Taha Hussein Mahmoud, Agriculture Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture, Cairo, Egypt)

Added June 26, 1997