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1. MANAGEMENT OF BROILER CHICKS

2. Selection of day old chicks
 A healthy breeding stock should be maintain in the hatchery.
 Generally 10% of the chicks are not in required body
conditions.
 Should remove bad chicks : culling
 Culling is based on
- appearance
- behavior of the chicks

3. Characteristics of healthy chick
 Rounded head
 Active with bright eyes widely open
 Strong, straight and shiny shins
 Without physical defects
 No pathogens and with good maternal immunity
 Prominent and strong beak

4. Transporting
 Within first 3 days.
 Specially prepared cardboard boxes with Ventilation facilities.
 Avoid over crowding.
Before arrival practices
 Disinfection of cages – before 7 days
• Lime (CaCo3) Lysol
 Preparation of brooder
 Maintain foot bath – before 1 day

5. Management of chicks after arrival
• Should apply paper on the litter material
of brooder before move chicks
• First day provide chick guard for reduce
travel stress condition

6. Brooding
 The process of development of day old chicks to independent bird.
In a brooding system,
 Chicks reared on litter
 Litter is cover using news papers
 Change news papers twice a day

7. Ventilation
Access to
feed
Clean
water
Temperature
Light
intensity

8. Feed management
• Normally feed with starter mash
• Content
 Crude protein 21-22%
 Metabolic energy 2.9 kcal/g
 Crude fiber <6%
 Ca 1%
 P 0.6%
 Adequate essential amino acids – Lysine + Methionine

9. • Use feeding tray or chick feeders to feeding
• Use waters to watering

10. Environment conditions
Temperature management
 In first week – 32-35°C
 Heating must start 24 hours before chicks arrive.
 Chick behavior use as a temperature management guide.
 Low heat ????
 Excess heat ???
 Correct heat ???

11.  Low temperature cause to
 Reduced growth
 High temperature cause to
 Fainting
 Diarrhoea
 Reduced growth
 Cannibalism

12. Ventilation
 Supply fresh air
 Remove CO2
 Keep litter dry
Relative humidity
 60 - 70 % is desired
 High RH : make the litter wet and liberate ammonia
 Low RH : poor feather development and high death
rate

13. Disease and Vaccination
 The modern broiler reaches slaughter weight within
several weeks.
 This leaves little time to develop a immune system.
 Therefore, broiler chicks are vaccinated against several
diseases.
 Vaccines are delivered via spraying or via drinking water.

14. Vaccination
 0 day at hatch Marek’s disease vaccine
 5th day Lasota
 7th ,14th & 21st day Gumboro
 28th day Lasota

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