In the process of using chicken cages to raise chickens, many chicken farmers have heard of the term feeding management. So, how do we understand the meaning of the word? In fact, this is a big question. To answer this question, it depends on whether the questioner is a novice chicken raiser or a chicken farmer with some experience.
If you are a novice, then feeding management can be understood as: the process and operating guidelines for raising chickens.
For example, what to do before entering the chicken, how to start eating, how the immunization process is, how to vaccinate, how to feed, how to do daily lighting and ventilation, how to grasp the humidity and temperature. How to prevent and diagnose chicken disease, how to treat chicken disease after diagnosis, how to choose the method of administration, how to deal with some situations (such as chicken feathers, etc.). All of the above are the work content of feeding management. In other words, the feeding and management process of raising chickens is the whole process of raising chickens.
If you are a chicken farmer with some experience, the nature of feeding management has become a few key words, which I personally summarize as: “details”, “standardization”, and “processification.”
The extensive chicken raising mode is difficult to meet the above keywords. Although it is considered to be breeding, it is difficult to rise to the word “management”. In this case, the chicken is often sick, the mortality rate is high, and the cost is low. Therefore, the essence of feeding management is to reduce the cost and risk of raising chickens, and the above words are the core of them.
What is the duration of the light, how to set the temperature and humidity, how much water and feed is needed, how to set the time of drinking and feeding, how much is the amount of immunization and treatment, etc., must be strictly standard. And this standard must be very fine, not a relatively large interval that can be determined by so-called experience. This is standardization and detail.
The so-called process is a set of standard processes from chicken to slaughter. In short, what is the point of what to do. When this set of processes is summarized, the chickens will follow this process, and the probability of errors in the chicken raising process will be much smaller. Of course, process and standardization and details are strictly unified and complementary.
As mentioned above, feeding management is a big problem, but the basic principle is the one described above. If you have a place that you don’t understand or have objections, you can consult a professional from a poultry equipment manufacturers.