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Description
Mind Map by Kate Williams, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Kate Williams
almost 11 years ago
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Chicken Production
- Broiler
- No meat birds in cages!
- 35-43 days to get to table weight
- Hybrid birds
- Breeding Programmes for rapid growin males and breeder females
- Males = Better FCR. Portions!
- Housing= completely controlled
- Continuous light 2 days, only 4 hours dark at once
- Keep birds in thermoneutral zone
- Spot Brooding and Whole House Brooding
- Virgin White Wood Shavings
- Continuous light 2 days, only 4 hours dark at once
- Nipple Drinker - Vitamin C added, start height low then rise
- 70% of cost = food! - Starter, Grower and Finisher Feeds (25 days on finisher)
- No meat birds in cages!
- Egg Birds
- Medium hybris cross bred brown bird
- Enriched Cage (best system) - 1st Jan 2012 legally
- Barn = 9 birds/sq m. 15cm perch
- Free Range =2500 birds/ha
- Organic = eggs not birds!
- Females reared for 18 weeks - 3 vaccines given here
- Reared to 1.6kg (1.65 free range - transfer, lose condition)
- Transfer, should be 1 day. 3rd salmonella vacc. 15 hours of light/day
- Transfer, should be 1 day. 3rd salmonella vacc. 15 hours of light/day
- Reared to 1.6kg (1.65 free range - transfer, lose condition)
- 280-300 eggs/hen/year
- Hen Housed Average = No. eggs from shed divided by no. birds first placed in shed
- Hen Housed Average = No. eggs from shed divided by no. birds first placed in shed
- Layer feed=higher in energy, add oil to feed=larger eggs
- Consumption increase to 35% to peak lay
- Calcium and Phosphorous - improve shell strength, prevent osteoperosis
- Sodium + Chloride = improve shell quality, prevent cannibalism and weakening
- Consumption increase to 35% to peak lay
- Lighting duration affects onset of sexual maturity. Production house - more duration than rearing
- Medium hybris cross bred brown bird
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