To ensure optimal growth, uniformity, welfare, and meat quality in broiler chickens, early chick management must focus on the early adoption of feeding and drinking behaviors. It is important to ...

Editor's note: This article is an excerpt from the Cobb Breeder Management Guide and additional articles will follow. The Guide was designed to highlight critical factors that are most likely to ...

Abstract: proper environmental management, such as temperature and humidity, plays a vital role in ensuring optimal growth and development during broiler chicken brooding period. However, this system ...

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Overall flock performance greatly depends on proper brooding practice. During this period chicks are not able to regulate their own body temperature — a process known as thermo-regulation. Provision ...

Even though the hatcher period makes up only 14 percent of total incubation time, this period has a significant impact on chick quality. Since chick quality has an impact on broiler performance, ...