Life Journey of Broiler Chicken
Step 1Chicken companies purchase day-old female breeder chicks, called Pullets. At 20 weeks old, they join fellow breeder hens and roosters on the poultry farm to produce fertilized eggs(not table eggs).Step 2Eggs are collected and delivered to hatcheries where they are incubated and hatched into chickens raised for meat, called broilers.Step 3The chicks are moved […]
How to Start Broiler Farming
What’s Broiler Production Broiler production means the rearing of poultry breeds or birds that have a high productivity of meat. Under good management and in the long run, broiler farming is a profitable business. Chickens that are raised for meat are called “broilers.” These chickens are typically white, and are bred specifically for optimal health […]
Brooding Management for Day Old Chicks
What’s Brooding Period Brooding is a period immediately after the hatch when the farmers put the day old chicks in the brooder house. A recently hatched chick has not yet developed their own mechanism to regulate its own body temperature. Hence, it can’t maintain its body temperature properly for the first weeks and it is […]