May 31, 2011

In-ovo feeding can optimise poultry production

In-ovo feeding technology has established a new science of perinatal nutrition that will open opportunities for greater production efficiency and animal welfare. It may even be a necessary means to optimise poultry production, concluded Peter Ferket (North Carolina State University) and Zehave Uni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) at the Alltech Symposium in Lexington, Kentucky held this week.

The incubation and neonatal periods account for about 50 percent of the productive life of a two-kg market broiler. The perinatal period, the last four days before hatch through the first four days after hatch, is most critical for development and survival of commercial broilers, the researcher state. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and the International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers

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