Commercial Poultry NutritionCovering a variety of essential topics relating to commercial poultry nutrition and production—including feeding systems and poultry diets—this complete reference is ideal for professionals in the poultry-feed industries, veterinarians, nutritionists, and farm managers. Detailed and accessible, the guide analyzes commercial poultry production at a worldwide level and outlines the importance it holds for maintaining essential food supplies. With ingredient evaluations and diet formulations, the study's compressive models for feeding programs target a wide range of commercially prominent poultry, including laying hens, broiler chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and game birds, among others. |
Contents
CHAPTER 1 GLOBAL POULTRY PRODUCTION | 1 |
CHAPTER 2 INGREDIENT EVALUATION AND DIET FORMULATION | 9 |
CHAPTER 3 FEEDING PROGRAMS FOR GROWING EGGSTRAIN PULLETS | 123 |
CHAPTER 4 FEEDING PROGRAMS FOR LAYING HENS | 163 |
CHAPTER 5 FEEDING PROGRAMS FOR BROILER CHICKENS | 229 |
CHAPTER 6 FEEDING PROGRAMS FOR BROILER BREEDERS | 297 |
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2.1 INGREDIENT EVALUATION aflatoxin amino acids Arginine ascites Biotin Bird age birds body weight breeder BROILER BREEDERS BROILER CHICKENS brown egg calcium canola carcass chicks choline corn crude protein Cystine deficiency density DIET FORMULATION Diet specifications dietary diets containing digestibility effect egg production energy intake enzyme EVALUATION AND DIET factor fatty acids feather feed intake feed restriction FEEDING PROGRAMS fiber flock gossypol grower growth rate heat stress increased kcal kcal ME/kg kcal/kg LAYING HENS Leeson Linoleic acid Lysine major male broilers manure maturity meat meal metabolism Metabolizable Energy Methionine mycotoxins needs nutrition occur peak phosphorus phytase potential Poult poultry premixes problems PROGRAMS FOR BROILER PROGRAMS FOR LAYING protein pullets reduced SECTION 2.1 INGREDIENT Selenium shell quality Sodium solubility soybean meal tannins Threonine Tryptophan turkeys usually Vitamin B12 Vitamin E weeks of age wheat yolk