Dennis Nyamu Maina

Gut health challenge is one of the major factors affecting production and profitability in commercial laying hens. In addition, chronic heat stress results in lowered feed intake, egg production, egg quality, gut microbiome and also impairs acid-base balance in laying birds. Numerous data support that laying birds fed with organic acid improved egg production and quality (Sakdee et al., 2018; Zhan ...

Introduction In the past decades, the improvement of production efficiency has resulted in the tremendous success in the poultry industry. Feed Conversion Ratio has decreased from 2.8 in the 1950s to less than 1.6 currently. Over the past 25 years, the number of eggs laid by a single laying hen increased by at least one egg per year. As the production efficiency has improved, the poultry industry ...