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Regarding the feed control to reduce mortality and to save feed which is s major input variable...Chicken production is basically converting vegetable protein ( cheaper) in to chicken ( more expensive than feed) The fast growing birds has more appetite and consumes feed more than what is converted in to chicken. The excess consumption can be carefully reduced by limiting the feed ( not exactly res ...

@Dr Kotaiah Talapaneni:You are correct, in open-sided houses without fans or house insulation, feed restriction is a method of keeping more large birds alive. The last experience that I had with these types of houses was in 1978-1980, where bird weights were less than 4-4 1/2 pounds per bird. Today, current average weight is 6 1/2 pounds per bird. We used feed restriction from late morning until t ...

I am refering to open sided houses where day temperatures raise beyond 40c. Commercial broilers whose appetite is high continue to eat and succumb to sudden death. Limit feeding during hot part of the day.

During COVID years the slaughters houses had shortage of workers, and the marketing channels were disrupted. Then many farmers had to slower speed production rates until they got a buyer, They needed time to wait or to accelerate if needed for their sale turn. Eggs, pigs, broilers were in that situation.

@Dr Kotaiah Talapaneni , In my 45 years of feeding commercial broilers, I have never restricted feed intake under good commercial conditions (exception for high> 98 degrees F temperatures in the house years ago). For broilers fed lower-protein diets balanced to energy, these diets and management conditions resulted in some of the higher growth rates in the US with very lower than average produc ...

Heat stress is a big problem especially some of us in the Tropics. On top of the feeding and supplementation, its import to do the right stocking especially in poultry. over stocking may over potentiate heat stress leading to poor production. Right housing with sufficient air ration is very import. At time like this especially to dip litter poultry houses there is a lot of dust and all this need t ...

The inappropriate use of vaccination calendars with strains that do not exist in the wild leads to antigenic variants.In short: variants arise because those who administer vaccines with non-existent strains provide material for the virus to recombine.

@Dr Kotaiah Talapaneni Good option!