RE: WHY DID I START USING TIME MANAGEMENT IN MY POULTRY FARMING BUSINESS?

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If I want to go by the little understanding of your last statement, I have to buy the feed also, quality one at that to say. The issue of trampling and mortality, I only have the issues when the pen is being overcrowded by pen and at times when there's heat.

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They suffocate both from the heat and from the cold when they press against each other and climb on top of each other. I think you start with a chick starter feed and work your way up to a finisher feed. I heard that breeders of large breeds of turkeys use pig food as a fattening feed, it is cheaper than chicken feed, but no less nutritious, have you tried this option? I tried to study this topic closely, read a lot and watched videos on fattening broilers, as a rule, they all agreed that it was only beneficial for raising birds for their own consumption, and not for sale. The only plus was that you know what exactly you fed the bird and how you treated it, meaning antibiotics.
Most of them have already abandoned this business, switched to either egg-laying breeds of chickens or large breeds of turkeys, the margin is greater. But, of course, I don’t know your production and market specifics, therefore, perhaps, if the competition is not very big, then this is a profitable undertaking :)
Also, I see that your broilers roam freely around the paddock, but they gain weight faster if they are restricted in movement and kept in cramped cages.

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Yes,I usually start with chick starter feed and that's what I use fir commercial purposes. You know this is business, I am selling "weight". So there's no need using chick finisher feed, I haven't used it before because it's less nutritious to the starter feed.

On the part of using pig food for Broiler birds, I don't think I ever come across that here. I may have but maybe didn't notice.

Yeah, my birds roam a lot when they are still babies but when they are grown, they will much more space do that reduces their roaming about.

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