Existing chicken incubators, especially low cost and older models, use the same egg tray through the 18 day Setting Phase, as well as through the final three days hatching phase; while this does help keep production costs down, it does have a definite ongoing price
An important part of raising chickens is feeding - feeding makes up the major cost of production and good nutrition is reflected in the bird's performance and its products
There has been a recent approach to feed technology and animal nutrition to develop sugar syrup, an intermediary product of sugar refining, to develop as energy feed for poultry
Commercial poultry (farms with greater than 5,000 birds) are almost universally vaccinated against a variety of diseases
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