Breeder Signals is essential for anyone working in the poultry meat chain as breeder farm managers, farm workers, advisors, veterinarians, students, etc.
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BREEDER SIGNALS A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT OF BROILER BREEDERS
Breeder Signals is part of the Poultry Signals series©. Poultry Signals presents practical knowledge of animal-oriented poultry farming in an easy, accessible format.
ISBN 978-90-8740-332-4
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Breeder Signals contains practical information about broiler breeders to ensure maximum production of first grade hatching eggs. This book also offers practical tools and modern insights to optimise sexual behaviour, fertility, egg production, and hatchability, based on the look-think-act approach. Feathering provides you with signals about the quality of your flock. Too nice? Then they are hardly mating. Too little? These hens will not mate since it will be painful. The book follows the day-old-chick arriving at the rearing house through the laying period and up to egg transport to the hatchery.
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Poultry meat is the most important animal protein source in the human diet. As a consequence, global production of broiler meat is rapidly growing and now more than 125 million metric tonnes. A relatively small number of broiler breeders has a major impact on the whole poultry meat chain. The continuing increase in the genetic potential of broilers makes the production of first-class chicks increasingly challenging. State-of-the-art management is crucial for a successful flock. Differences in results up to 10 day-old chicks per hen house are not rare, costing tens of thousands of euros.
A practical guide to optimal management of broiler breeders
A practical guide to optimal management of broiler breeders
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