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  2. Poultry feed - Wikipedia

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    Diseases can be avoided with proper maintenance of the feed and feeder. A feeder is the device that supplies the feed to the poultry. [8] For privately raised chickens, or chickens as pets, feed can be delivered through jar, trough or tube feeders. The use of poultry feed can also be supplemented with food found through foraging. [9]

  3. Poultry farming - Wikipedia

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    Poultry farming is the form of animal husbandry which raises domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese to produce meat or eggs for food. Poultry – mostly chickens – are farmed in great numbers. More than 60 billion chickens are killed for consumption annually.

  4. Broiler industry - Wikipedia

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    The broiler industry is the process by which broiler chickens are reared and prepared for meat consumption. Worldwide, in 2005 production was 71,851,000 tonnes. From 1985 to 2005, the broiler industry grew by 158%. [1] A key measure of performance is the feed conversion ratio (FCR), the ability to

  5. Battery cage - Wikipedia

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    Chickens in multiple-occupancy battery cages. Battery cages are a housing system used by factory farms for various animal production methods, but primarily for egg-laying hens. The name arises from the arrangement of rows and columns of identical cages connected, in a unit, as in an artillery battery. Although the term is usually applied to ...

  6. Furnished cage - Wikipedia

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    A furnished cage, sometimes called enriched cage, colony cage or modified cage, is a type of cage used in poultry farming for egg laying hens.Furnished cages have been designed to overcome some of the welfare concerns of battery cages (also called 'conventional' or 'traditional cages') whilst retaining their economic and husbandry advantages, and also provide some of the welfare advantages ...

  7. Animal feed - Wikipedia

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    Animal feed is food given to domestic animals, especially livestock, in the course of animal husbandry. There are two basic types: fodder and forage. Used alone, the word feed more often refers to fodder. Animal feed is an important input to animal agriculture, and is frequently the

  8. Feed manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    "Use of Distillers Co-products in Diets Fed to Poultry" (PDF). Using Distillers Grains in the U.S. and International Livestock and Poultry Industries. Midwest Agribusiness Trade Research and Information Center at the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University. pp. 99– 133.

  9. Early feeding - Wikipedia

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    In poultry farming, early feeding is the ad lib availability of feed and water for day-old chicks from the moment of hatching from the egg.. Early feeding has a positive effect on chick performance because development and maturation of important organs is not retarded post hatch, but continues.

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