Uniform Care For Top Performance

摘要

Non-uniform care can affect layer performance in a variety of areas, some inadvertently built into housing and equipment systems, others which are part of our daily management. The concept of flock uniformity of bodyweight has been used for years to assess the equality of treatment in growing pullet flocks. Recognising that variation in bodyweight is normal, the attention to abnormal variation gives us an additional measure, other than bodyweight by itself, of the quality of care we provide our flocks. Abnormal variation is assumed to be the result of improper facilities and equipment, failure to apply management evenly throughout the flock, and/or errors in our sampling methods.