Egg Chicken Production Technology Q&A

Author: Han Shouling
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: In recent years, the production of laying hens has rapidly developed in China, especially after the 1990s, when numerous chicken farmers, specialized villages, and various types of chicken farms emerged, becoming one of the key industries for wealth creation in many rural areas. As this industry has grown larger, competition has become increasingly fierce. Since 1998, with the arrival of the low-profit era in this industry, practitioners have had to seek efficiency not only through scale but also through management. In recent years, some specialized households have beening in low-profit margins or even incurring losses, primarily due to issues such as (variety distortion), (blind expansion), disorganized and (unsystematic and extensive) daily management, high morbidity rates during the brooding and growing periods, high mortality and culling rates in adult chickens, low production levels, low feed conversion ratios, and the threats of avian influenza and atypical Newcastle disease. These problems, depending on their severity and handling methods, will yield different returns for all practitioners. Faced with opportunities and challenges, to enable practitioners to effectively master laying hen production techniques and achieve better benefits, the author has summarized years of frontline production experience, combined with recent experiments on new concepts, and referenced the successful experiences of many experts to compile this "Q&A on Laying Hen Production Technology." This book strives to be systematic and comprehensive while placing greater emphasis on its targeting and practicality. We hope that the publication of this book will help chicken farmers improve their profitability.