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Participation in Forum on November 24, 2025
Excellent summary Dr Leeson, particularly for all of the industry to include independent poultry Growers and integrated broiler operations. The numerical values that you give are very valuable for our operations.My experienced is with integrated operations and another factor arises where the profit is calculated when the meat is sold to the grocery store. This factor is plant/packing costs that un ...
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Growth of the modern broiler is very adaptable to a vast range of diet nutrient densities, and so formulation matrices are greatly impacted by prevailing economic situations. The broiler still eats quite precisely to its energy needs and alters its feed intake in response to variable diet energy level. For example, 25-35d broilers can be fed diets a low as 2850 kcal/kg or as high as 3500 kcal/kg a ...
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Apart from using additives like organic acids, pro-prebiotics, GAA, and betaine, my experience highlights two fundamental nutritional strategies that are effective and have been validated through extensive testing on large farms:-Balancing Digestible Amino Acids: Increasing the levels of digestible sulfur amino acids (SID SAA) as mentioned before and arginine (SID Arg) , which enhances blood circu ...
Participation in Forum on July 23, 2025
@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 ...
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