The body weight and body condition of the bird as she comes into lay will be the ultimate factors for determining how good the performance of the breeder is going to be. [Photo: Henk Riswick]
In breeders, achieving the recommended weekly body weight gain is the basis for good laying performance. But it is the right body composition that makes the difference between a high-performing breeder hen and a poor layer.
By virtue of its genetic make-up, a broiler has a voracious appetite to consume large amounts of feed and an equally matching capacity to convert this feed and thus gain weight. As the science of genetics progressively brings in each successive generation of broilers with inc
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