Question

Name any two exotic breeds of fowl in India, and mention their usefulness.

Answer 1

Hint: For the purpose of crossbreeding, exotic breeds are used. Exotic means foreign and is not native. It is developed somewhere and is brought to an area. So once they have crossed with the indigenous and the product artificially bred offspring. They will be producing yield much better as compared to the indigenous ones.

Complete answer:
Examples of exotic breeds of fowl in India are Leghorn and Rhode Island Red.
Leghorns are the good layers of white eggs who lay at an average of 280 per year and sometimes this reaches to 300–320 which has a weight of at least 55 g. For the creation of highly productive egg-laying hybrids, White Leghorns have been much used for commercial and industrial operations.
To provide both meat and eggs, the Rhode Island Red was developed as a dual-purpose breed. Since 1940, it has been predominantly selected bred for egg-laying qualities and the modern industrial Rhode Island Red is a layer breed. Mainly due to the prolific egg-laying abilities of the Rhode Island Red, Rhode Island Reds have been used in the creation of many modern hybrid breeds. The traditional dual-purpose that is "old-type" Rhode Island Red lays around 200–300 brown eggs per year, and this yields rich-flavoured meat that is suitable for making chicken stew.

Note:
There are various benefits of exotic breeds. The exotic breeds are highly tolerant to various diseases and are less likely to suffer from various diseases. They are highly tolerant of other factors such as temperature, parasites etc. as well.