Diet: The type of feed a chicken eats can affect how quickly it digests food. For example, a study found that broiler chickens fed wheat-based diets digested starch more rapidly than those fed sorghum-based diets
Age: The digestive system of a broiler chicken is juvenile at hatch, so its ability to digest food and absorb nutrients is limited. The digestibility of some nutrients may decrease over the first 5–9 days of age, before increasing again by day 14.
On average, it takes a broiler chicken 4–6 hours to digest food, but it can take up to 12 hours in some cases. The time it takes for a chicken to digest food depends on several factors,
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