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The heating and ventilation systems in a poultry house must be continuously monitored to keep the moisture content of the litter controlled so that the litter remains friable (easily broken up or crumbly). If the litter becomes too wet and the litter is allowed to become "sealed", then the birds will be living on a damp, slippery and sticky ...
Most growout houses built in recent years feature "tunnel ventilation," in which a bank of fans draws fresh air through the house. [ 36 ] Traditionally, a flock of broilers consist of about 20,000 birds in a growout house that measures 400/500 feet long and 40/50 feet wide, thus providing about eight-tenths of a square foot per bird.
Vent sexing in Wenchang, Hainan, China (2014) Vent sexing, also known simply as venting, involves squeezing the feces out of the chick, which opens up the chick's anal vent (called a cloaca) slightly, allowing the chicken sexer to see if the chick has a small "bump", which would indicate that the chick is a male. Some females also have bumps ...
Management of ventilation, housing, stocking density and in-house procedures must be evaluated regularly to support good welfare of the flock. The breeding stock (broiler-breeders) do grow to maturity but also have their own welfare concerns related to the frustration of a high feeding motivation and beak trimming.
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 ...
Precision livestock farming (PLF) is a set of electronic tools and methods used for the management of livestock.PLF involves automated monitoring of animals to improve their production, reproduction, health, welfare, and impact on the environment.
Poultry of the world (c. 1868) Poultry (/ ˈ p oʊ l t r i /) are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of harvesting animal products such as meat, eggs or feathers. [1] The practice of raising poultry is known as poultry farming.
The causes and development of vent pecking are multifarious. Risk factors that have been identified as increasing vent pecking include dim lights placed in nest boxes to encourage hens to use the boxes, the diet being changed more than three times during the egg laying period, the use of bell drinkers, and the hens beginning to lay earlier than 20 weeks of age. [2]