Muhammad Kashif Iqbal

I agree with Aziz Sacrani , when appropriate installation and housing is not available for minimum ventilation and adequate fresh air containing oxygen is not brought in to the house with certain air speed with 5 minute recommended cycle timer Co2 accumulates and will result reduced feed intake.

Agree with Dr.Penz, instead of focusing on Co2 levels I wold suggest focus on Oxygen. Brooding period and during cold weather are times when the management should be ensuring good air quality in the broiler house. As a rule I recommend one air change every 5 minutes as minimum ventilation. When minimum ventilation is not provided that is when we see levels of CO2 increase, these conditions will i ...

It is really very satisfying that we give water the importance it deserves, I have always maintained that it is a forgotten element and that we still do not know what the main foods are. In my daily actions, I always teach farm managers that the first food is air, then water and finally food, the buffer capacity of food must be considered in order to avoid altering the pH of the digestive tract an ...

Acidification can also help in early protein digestion. Acidity also plays a major factor in the transformation of pepsinogen to pepsin, which is essential for protein digestion. Lysine digestibility in day-old broilers is 78%, but rises to above 89% by 14 days of age. Therefore, acidification of the water may benefit early protein digestion by slightly reducing the buffering of the feed passing f ...