Do you know the 11 factors effect broilers' growth?

Fred Xu

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Affected by the epidemic, the global economy is in decline, the price of raw materials has increased sharply, how to reduce costs, maintain stability or increase efficiency has become the top priority of various poultry companies. For broiler producers especially for meat producers, improve the final body weight or culture the chickens meet the standard weight with shorter period will be an ideal situation. Bile acids as innovative feed additive, which accepted by more and more broiler producers to improve the growth performance.

The first thing we need to know is that broiler is a special biological system:

It has functioning which is largely controlled by physical and environmental parameters.

Commercial broiler breeders, like Aviagen recommend that you focus on keeping the following rearing factors consistent:

Factor#1: Stocking density

Heavily populating your broiler house with densely packed flocks can have a negative impact on broiler growth and weight gain.

Factor#2: Ventilation

Ventilation and airflow in broiler housing provide your flock with fresh air.

This is air that has low gaseous emissions like CO2 and ammonia from urea – helping birds remain alert and healthy.

Consistent air temperature is also a benefit of good broiler house ventilation.

When well ventilated, broiler houses accommodate the birds keeping optimal body temperatures.

Factor#3: Lighting

Lighting is a behavioural stimulant. It steers physical movements, alertness and inclination to feed, drink and reproduce.

Factor#4: Feed supply 

It’s no surprise that what and how you feed your broilers will have a direct effect on their ability to grow and gain weight.

Breeder advice and live trialing are good quality indicators for what is likely to work and deliver you the best results.

Factor#5: Chick quality

Chicks are the seeds of your poultry farming enterprise. If the seed is good, then it is likely the plant and fruit also will be good – if husbandry methods are good. Any signs of poor chick condition as receipt are most certainly foretelling of future losses to your business. Practice keen attention to detail when selecting your chicks.

Factor#6: Health

Healthy birds convert input most efficiently into the profitable output of growth and weight. For broiler’s bodies to perform maximally at turning all that costly feed into profitable meat. If their bodies are hindered in any way and carrying additional burdens, to compensate, this will result in less growth, less weight and less profit for you.

Factor#7: Bird welfare

Bird welfare is a natural flagging system giving you forewarning of flock problems. Being able to read the signs of good vs. bad bird welfare will save untold profits for your broiler farm. Will nip any potential losses in the bud – before worsening sets in.

Factor#8: Nutrition

Quality of broiler feed is where you make your ‘points potential’ count toward the goal of profit. Broiler nutrition is a fundamental building block of growth and weight gain. It’s the substrate which the birds will use to convert increase.

Factor#9: Temperature

Broilers have no sweat glands. And we all know just how effective sweating is at relieving our bodies of heat on a hot day.

Keep an optimal and consistent broiler house temperature for best results.

Factor#10: Water supply

Access to ample amounts of clean drinking water on demand is critical to maintaining bird comfort.

This resource is the primary mechanism that the birds have for keeping cool.

Factor#11: Vaccination status

Ensuring broilers are well protected against potential disease outbreaks helps performance.

Disease serious saps the reserves of broilers, knocking their growth trajectory away from achieving your target.

Bile acids are the main active component of bile with multiple biological activities, which are a series of sterol substances produced in the process of cholesterol metabolism in animals.

Bile acids can promote the digestion, absorption and utilization of fat, thereby improving feed conversion rate and increasing feed returns.

Bile acids can improve production performance, improve carcass quality, reduce FCR by 5-10%, and increase total evisceration rate by 0.8-1.5%

Adding 200-400g/t bile acids to the poultry feed can reduce the metabolic energy by 20-50 kcal

Bile acids can improve the body's physiological internal environment, and effectively solve broiler intestinal diseases through nutritional regulation.