Simple Guide to Poultry Raising

Author: Yang Quanming and Di Youxiang, Editors
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Publication Date: 2002-04-01
Features: Chicken is the primary means to meet the human demand for animal protein. In recent years, China's broiler industry has developed rapidly, playing a significant role in livestock production. Broiler production is moving towards industrialization, socialization, standardization, serialization, and commercialization. Looking back at the 70-year history of global broiler production, it is a gradual process of industrialization. This is also the foundation for the high-speed, efficient, and stable development of the broiler industry in the past 30 years. Chinese broiler producers must adopt the track of industrialized production to achieve stable income. Broilers have the following characteristics: fast early growth, high feed conversion rate, high reproductive rate, strong stress resistance, low production costs, quick capital turnover, good economic benefits, and high market demand. They can be raised in both scattered and high-density farming. Developing broiler production is an effective way to help farmers become wealthy and achieve a well-off life while reasonably arranging rural surplus labor. Broiler production specialists must closely cooperate with broiler parent flocks, hatcheries, feed mills, slaughter and processing plants, and sales markets. They should raise chickens legally, honor contracts, and form a complete industrialized system for broiler production. Throughout the entire process of industrialized broiler production, advanced and high-tech elements are integrated. This requires broiler producers to continuously learn from advanced domestic and international experiences and scientific research achievements, systematically understand new technologies and methods in broiler production, and improve China's broiler production level. In addition to systematically introducing broiler breeds, feed and nutrition, raising and management, chicken farm construction, and disease prevention, this book also includes chapters on broiler environment and high-quality broiler raising, as well as an overview of broiler production and trade both domestically and internationally, to meet readers' needs. This book is suitable for a wide range of broiler producers, chicken farm technicians, business management personnel, as well as reference for scientific, educational, and feed industry professionals.