Equipment

Management and maintenance of automatic equipment in poultry houses: Feeders

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Francisco Castellanos Guzmán

José Antonio Quintana López

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Poultry equipment is of great importance since birds entirely depend on the management provided by man:

  • First of all, to survive,
  • Second, for body maintenance and
  • Third and most important is that the birds grow well and develop their genetic potential so that poultry farming is profitable.

In this way, feeding plays the most critical role for birds to convert their feed into meat; this is called the feed conversion ratio.

  • If a broiler has the correct access to the feed it can consume, the feed conversion will be better. The height, the design of the feeder, and the space play a fundamental role.

FEEDERS

This equipment is of utmost importance and must work at 100% from the beginning to the end of the flock. Therefore, any negative management in feed consumption in the first week has repercussions until the end.

Currently, this equipment is of first help in the poultry houses for the proper feeding of flocks for:

  • Save on labor
  • Control of feed consumption and waste,
  • Improve production rates.

Particle size

  • On the contrary, if the product is not the proper one from the physical point of view, it will cause problems in the quality and performance of the flocks, mainly in the rearing phases.

Suppose the size and compaction are not the desired ones. In that case, nutritional problems arise because of

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