CROWING CHARACTER OF GAGA' CHICKEN AS LONG CROWER OF NATIVE CHICKEN BREED OF INDONESIA

Gaga???chicken is germplasm, genetic resources, and indigenous chicken of South-Sulawesi Indonesia with unique, exlusive, superiority of bioacoustic character with long-melodious rhythm, and different crowing style-tone-tempo comparing with other singing chickens in the world. The Gaga???chicken specificity was the stuttering voices at the ending of crowing sound. Some crowing character informations of Gaga??? chicken were needed to optimize both conservation and utilization strategies. This research was done to describe the crowing duration and number of crowing syllables of Gaga chicken. This research used 532 birds Gaga???chicken from Sidrap, Barru, and Maros Districts South-Sulawesi Indonesia. They were separated based on crowing speed into Slow-type (234 birds) and Dangdut-type (298 birds). Dangdut-type were separated again, based on total number of crowing syllables, into Long-Dangdut-type (51 birds) and Short-Dangdut-type (247 birds). All crowing sounds were recorded and computering digitalized using the Sound-ForgeXp.10 to visualized the bioacoustic character as a wave form then data interpreting for analyzing the mean and standard deviation. The average crowing duration of Long-Dangdut-type, Short-Dangdut-type, and Slow-type were 30.52 seconds, 4.11 seconds, and 3.65 seconds and total number of syllables were 140.9, 20.9, and 8.3 syllables, respectively. The crowing duration of Gaga???chicken were longer than Pelung chicken as famous singing chicken from West-Java Indonesia and have more number of syllables than Kokok Balenggek chicken from West-Sumatera as singing chicken with long rhyme. The unique crowing character of Gaga???chicken could be as identifier of one variety of singing chicken in Indonesia and criterion selection of melodious crowing chicken.\ud Keywords : Gaga???chicken, Singing chicken, Crowing syllable, Crowing duratio