Farming Chickens for 500 Days (Fourth Edition)

Author: Gan Menghou
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: This book is revised by the author based on the third edition, targeting the changes in the current egg production industry in China. In addition to partial modifications to the production management outline for flock chickens, as well as the feeding and management of chicks, growing chickens, and laying hens, modern egg-type chicken breeds, feed and nutrition, principles and techniques for preventing avian infectious diseases, and the prevention and treatment of chicken diseases, the book also includes introductions to dwarf and light-brown-shelled egg chicken breeds. Furthermore, it covers the prevention and treatment of avian influenza, avian breast and spinal cord inflammation, chicken viral arthritis, and chicken infectious anemia, which have occurred in recent years and caused certain harm. Additionally, the sections on nutritional deficiencies in chickens, the prevention and treatment of parasitic diseases, and the prevention of poultry poisoning have been rewritten.