Indigenous chickens, in many rural households, are kept by poor families, providing them employment, family proteins and means of increasing family economic gains. Farmers have been traditionally raising different breeds of indigenous chickens for religious purpose, family consumption and for sale. Ethnic tribes across Nepal such as Tamang, Derai, Tharu and Magar sacrifice lots of indigenous chicken that are bigger, healthy, with bright colors during various ceremonies, festivals, and for guest hospitality. Chicken and eggs provide a readily available, high quality and inexpensive source of proteins, vitamins, and micronutrients accepted by all ethnic groups and important for children and nursing mother. Chickens are the source for pest control with minimum environmental impact (Kattel, 2016). Farmers preferred to raise indigenous chickens because of unsuitability of commercial chickens for religious ceremonies extra skill, space, labor and capital requirement for commercial chickens; preference for meat and eggs of the native chickens; and the income from indigenous chickens is higher. However, the productivity of indigenous chickens is not encouraging, so more education and support on chicken keeping is essential to enhance a positive economic impact on the local communities. Socially accepted technology with sustainable environment should be worked out by government and non-government organizations for rural poultry development (Bhurtel, 1995).