Creating a Uniform Broiler

When the broiler is not uniform weight will increase production costs so that the lower income of farmers. There are practical ways to get a uniform broiler.
The aim is to get the broiler to maintain high productivity and to produce the desired weight loss market. To achieve this, one must seek for broiler breeders that have kept most of the ideal body weight at market age. Thus necessary to create a broiler that has a uniform weight.
For example, the losses will be experienced by broiler breeder if the weight loss varies greatly among others, is the production of broilers per cage was reduced, while production costs remain. This of course would minimize the advantage gained. Variations of this weight will result in weight variation of carcass or meat produced. Additionally, consumers quite selective in choosing the broiler. They liked the broiler the broiler with a certain weight. Therefore, the variation of body weight will result in delays in marketing, which means increased production costs, or more unfortunately forced to sell cheaply.
Below are given practical instructions on how to make broiler uniform.
Maintaining a female or male only
In general, broiler body weight of male and female are different. Therefore, maintaining a separate broiler is highly recommended to create uniformity. However, it seems difficult to implement given the seed industry is currently selling it mixed.
Buying a uniform DOC
If possible, farmers should buy the DOC whose weight is uniform. This is of course require the cooperation with seed industry, seed industry which always provides a relatively uniform seedlings.
DOC immediately given drinking
After a long journey taken by DOC, then soon after arriving in the stable, DOC given water to drink electrolytes and energy. Provision of drinking water to prevent loss of body water, so losing weight can be prevented. Provision of energy, electrolytes and vitamins were also performed to replace the lost electrolytes, while the energy is given as a source of energy. If this is done, then weight loss can be prevented and the DOC have optimal health. To enable all DOC drinking, then soon after arrival, each DOC led to drinking, and add the number of normal drinking water for 50-100% for 4-5 hours. Feed can be given after this period.
If the DOC's too late drinking water within a few days can be seen not uniform.
Cage temperature
It is known that the temperature of the ambient temperature can affect the growth of chickens. At the time of hot chicks still require additional, then the chicken should get the extra heat evenly. Therefore, breeders must be given enough. As an example of hot chicks gets excessive, will be able to reduce appetite, which means less chick gets adequate nutrition. The temperature is too hot will disrupt the metabolic processes in the body. Similarly, if the chick is less convenient, may interfere with metabolic processes that can cause abnormalities.
Similarly, if one location of the position of the cage, for example some other enclosure protected by the sun, this is certainly cause differences in temperature and humidity less. This causes a non-uniform weight. The amount of feed and drinking places
The number of places where food and drinking water that is too little will make the cattle did not receive food and water evenly. this can lead to severe differences in the market. This of course can reduce the production of chickens per cage, which resulted directly reduce profits breeder.
Usually breeders make room for the feed as many as 20 pieces for 1000 tail. This is certainly a place to feed 50 chickens intended for adults. Though the capacity of one place only feed ranged from 12-17 tail. It is therefore not surprising that weight variation is very wide, which means low uniformity. Similarly, the requirement of drinking water, can cause the chicken did not drink together. Therefore, for 1000 adult chickens, takes place 60 fruit drink.
Diet / rations
Food that is mixed in uneven weight can cause differences in the chicken market. This is because chickens do not receive the nutrients evenly. In other words, there may be a chicken suffering from excessive nutrients and those that lack. The form of granules that are too large with other feed ingredients, because chicken tends to choose large granules.
To avoid this, the feed-made feed pellets. With chicken pellets inevitably will eat the feed without being able to vote.
Cage density
Cage density can affect the uniformity of weight. Cages that are too dense causing chicken does not get feed and drink simultaneously. In addition, overcrowded cages can lead to cannibalism and the need for certain nutrients increases.
Based on the results of research show that up to 14 ekor/m2, still quite good. So, for 1000 tail broilers require cages with size 6 x 12 meters.
Diseases and abnormalities
Metabolic disorders such as ascite, deficiency and excess of nutrients, foot abnormalities and infectious diseases can cause differences in the broiler. For example, chickens are experiencing foot disorders, causing difficult to get food and drink. This resulted in some chicken shortage of nutrients, so the growth is hampered.
In general chicken affected by the disease or disorder of metabolism decreased appetite. Also happens metabolic disorders that cause inefficient use of feed that can inhibit growth.
Feeding system
Feeding system can influence the uniformity. Early feed restriction on growth that one can lead to differences in weight, but the right system will produce more broiler weight uniform.
The food should be started 30 minutes after sunrise to provide all the chickens a chance to eat at the same time. Program a-skip-a-day will make more food available at every meal and give everyone a chance to eat chicken. If the feed varied in size will also cause the "selective-feeding" that causes some excess chicken fat. Therefore, uniformity of shape and size of the feed must be considered. Variations in the treatment of individuals
How to treat individuals also can produce varying weight. When we deal with thousands of chickens to vaccination, cut half and moved from one place, it is very difficult to treat each chicken the same. We must constantly monitor their employees and equipment to assure that our method is applied uniformly for each chicken.
Increased battery cages
In the broiler industry that use battery cages multistory, then there is a difference to air quality, lighting and ambient temperature. These differences can result in variability of body weight.
Exposure
Natural lighting plays an important role towards uniformity broiler. The intensity and length of the sun varies from day to day because of the season, the sun's position and curvature of the earth. Long days normally range between 15-30 minutes before sunrise until 15-30 minutes after the sun tenggelam.selama this twilight period of 15 030 minutes milimikron wavelength 400-700. Some chickens will find a way to get a feed and food when the light intensity of less than 0.25 ft / candles (or less than 400 milimikron). Also cloudy conditions, dust, water in the air and other factors also reduce the wavelength. So the amount of light stimulation of the pituitary gland may be different on different chicken and a different cage. This causes some chickens reach sexual maturity earlier.
To overcome this problem, the intensity can be supplemented by artificial light, if light available naturally decline during the period of "reading", so that all cages to obtain the same stimulation to improve uniformity.