Lina Paola Pardo Quevedo
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The one answer that ties up all the points that my colleagues have made is that YOU LOSE MONEY when your chicken loses weight. It is therefore important to create the right environment (nutrition, health, environment and welfare) for optimal performance.
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MemberAugust 8, 2025 at 1:51 pm in reply to: Stocking – Fish / Shrimp – Procedure & Important aspects to be taken careOnce you gets good quality seeds – Fish (Fry / fingerling) / Shrimp (Postlarvae / juveniles) from hatchery or nursery, we do need to follow certain basic steps for conditioning and stocking. Here we will focus on discussing about those aspects step by step. Team of dynamic professionals in this group please do mention 1 – 2 points only which you follows, advices or are aware about. Once shared by someone should not be repeated but others should further add on please.
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Feed plant maintenance is crucial for several key reasons: it ensures operational efficiency and productivity by preventing downtime and extending equipment lifespan; it guarantees feed quality and safety by preventing contamination and ensuring accurate mixing; it enhances workplace safety by reducing accidents and ensuring regulatory compliance; and it provides significant financial benefits through lower operating costs, reduced waste, and predictable budgeting. In essence, it’s a proactive strategy that protects assets, people, and profitability.Feed plant maintenance is crucial for several key reasons: it ensures operational efficiency and productivity by preventing downtime and extending equipment lifespan; it guarantees feed quality and safety by preventing contamination and ensuring accurate mixing; it enhances workplace safety by reducing accidents and ensuring regulatory compliance; and it provides significant financial benefits through lower operating costs, reduced waste, and predictable budgeting. In essence, it’s a proactive strategy that protects assets, people, and profitability.
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Factors responsible for loss in weight in chickens.
*Disease factors
*Daily feed intake not met or inadequate feeding.
*Dietary nutritional imbalance .
*Low daily water intake.
*Stress factors,such as heat stress disturbances and farm operations like debeaking, delousing,etc
*Indiscriminate or abuse use of drugs.
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Hybridization in breeding and genetics is the process of crossing two different breeds of chickens with pure lines to produce an hybrid or offspring that shares the peculiar traits or characteristics of the two parents.
The resultant hybrid or offspring will enhance poultry productivity as follows.
Reduction in cost of procurement of pure lines since hybrid birds possesses some valuable traits needed from the two pure lines parents.
Hybrid birds are known to be disease resistance.
Hybrid birds are also more adaptable to the environment than their parents.For example, Heat stress resistance or cold resistance.
Improved growth rate is also achieved in hybrid chickens or Animals.
In layers, improved egg production and egg qualities are also achieved with hybrid layers.
In Broilers for meat production, Improved age at slaughtering, Carcass yield and overall meat qualities are also accomplished with hybrid Broilers.
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Great, thanks

