Broiler are mainly kept for meat production, they normally gain slaughter weight between 7-14 weeks.
Additionally, broilers are characterized by white feathers and yellow skin. Enhancing their feeding with maize, soya, wheat, helps to increase weight. Further more a healthy broilers posses clean feathers and brightly coloured combs, while sick ones are dullness with low performance. Normally from 1-3 weeks broilers consume 1.2kg of feeds and at week 4 they weighs 1.4kg.
Practices involved
Always provide light in broiler houses, this facilitates continuous feeding both during day and night.
Additionally, during hot weather turn off lights in broiler houses before midnight as this helps their bodies to relax before they sleep.
Furthermore, for the first 3 days expose flock to 23 hours of light and 1 hour of darkness to help them find feeds and water and also for them to adopt to the environment respectively.
Always provide balanced feeds and water to broilers with enough feeding time for better growth.
Also fill chick waterer and feeder with water and protein feeds respectively, then dip each chick beak in each of the sections at a time for better growth and increased yields.
Lastly, feed birds as much as possible for faster growth and increased output.
