author(s)
Abhijeet Champati, Lipismita Samal, Nrusingha Charan Behura, Soubhagya Muduli and Popalghat Haresh Kashinathrao

abstract
The study was conducted to evaluate the growth performance of Hansli × CSML birds under intensive and semi-intensive systems of management. 186 day old chicks were brooded up to 6 weeks of age and then divided and reared separately under the two systems. The mean body weight, feed intake and FCR of birds at the end of 20^th week of age, under intensive system were significantly higher (P≤0.05) than that under semi-intensive system. Mortality during 0-6 weeks of age (chick stage) was recorded as 3.22 %. Mortality recorded during 7-20 weeks (grower stage) under intensive system was lower than that under semi-intensive system. From the study, it was concluded that, with humble supplementation and availability of scavenging feed resources, semi-intensive system of chicken rearing, is more favourable for the small holder poultry keepers.