UVAS

2. Poultry Presentation
Presented by :
ALI RAZA 2019-PS-001
Presented to :
Dr. Shahid Mehmood
Topic :
Basic Needs of poultry farming

3. BASIC NEEDS OF POULTRY
FARMING
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4. Contents
 Water
 Feed
 Ventilation
 Litter
 Light
 Temperature

5. Water
 Good quality water keep healthy to chickens.
 Maintains body temperature.
 Helps in digestion.
 Necessary factor in meat and egg production.
 Involved in every aspect of metabolism.
 At normal body temperature chicken consume
twice as much water as feed

6. Cont….
 At elevated temp water intake increase four
times than feed.
 If bad quality of water, they won’t drink
adequate amount.
 This will lead to disease and effect on
production.
 Poultry prefer water with pH 6--8

8. Feed
 Poultry birds require energy for
- Proper growth
- Egg production
- Good health
 In order to obtain desired growth rate, highly
nutritious poultry feed is required.
 Wheat and corn are best feed ingredients.

9. Cont….
 Poultry feed ingredients are easily available.
 Healthy poultry require a sufficient amount of
- Protein
- Carbohydrates
- Vitamins
- Minerals
- Water

10. Ventilation
 It supply fresh air in poultry house .
 Helps to reduce extremes of temp, humidity,
polluted air to tolerable limits for chickens
 Helps to remove ammonia and other toxic gases
from poultry house
 In summer, done by cooling pads and exhaust
fans.
 In winter, done by vents and variable speed fans.

11. Exhaust Fans Cooling pads
Variable Speed Fan Vents

12. Litter
 Poultry litter consists of bedding material,
manure and feathers etc.
 Dry litter is important for health and welfare of
birds as well as for workers.
 Caking of litter is due to too much moisture in
poultry house.
 Hard litter cause the breast blister to broilers.
 Rice husk, wheat straw, wood shavings etc are
litter material.

13. Cont….
 Caked litter cause increase of ammonia level
 Good litter can be maintained with proper ventilation.
Caked litter

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Litter Materials

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Breast Blister

16. Light
Essential for development, functioning of
reproductive system and growth.
Control the behavior of birds.
Lighting patterns are for stimulating and
controlling feed intake.
Cold Cathode and Fluorescent bulbs and
incandescent bulbs are used as light.

17. Cont….
Light consists of three aspects of light
- Intensity
- Duration
- Wavelength
Measured in lux

19. Darkness
 Short photoperiods in early life will
reduce
- Feed intake
- Limit growth

20. Temperature
The temperature of poultry house should be
maintained at ideal temperature.
Ideal temp for broiler is 25---27o
C
Maintained by cooling pads and exhaust fans
in summer.
In winter, maintained by brooder and vents.
Critical temperature is 29.4oC

21. Cont….
Above ideal temp, the birds start panting
Critical temp for layer is 20oC
For every 1oC lower than 20oC the birds
require extra 1.5g of feed per day.
Most efficient for layers is 20—24oC
When temp rise above 24oC then it will
reduce shell quality and egg weight .