Improving shell quality and egg quantity with the right minerals

To form the best egg possible, the hen needs the proverbial building blocks necessary to do so. That means presenting them those blocks on a silver platter, via the feed. - Photo: Ton Kastermans
To form the best egg possible, the hen needs the proverbial building blocks necessary to do so. That means presenting them those blocks on a silver platter, via the feed. - Photo: Ton Kastermans
Through years of genetic improvement layers have been selected for their ability to lay an egg every day. But as with human top athletes, all the variables need to be right for optimal performance. Nutrition plays a key part in this, more specifically, precision trace mineral inclusion in the ration. Alice Hibbert, Trouw Nutrition’s global programme manager for trace minerals, talked about this during an online seminar. In an ideal situation, an egg farmer hopes to have an egg a day per house


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Fabian Brockötter Editor in Chief, Poultry World