@article{DickSchmidt:56886,
author = "Dick Schmidt, Nina and Cepero Briz, Ricardo",
title = "{Seguimiento y control e una crianza de broilers}",
year = "2016",
note = "The present essay is intended to evaluate the consequences
of a broiler farm management in animal welfare, health and
productive results. In order to this, two flocks were fed
at the 028 farm from the Veterinary Faculty in the
University of Zaragoza. Two different flocks separated in
time were used, from the first day of life to the day 40th
of 3.600 chickens Ross 308 strain each one, males and
females. The management is basically the same for both
flocks, except some aspects like vaccination or kind of
feeder, were manual for the first flock and automatic for
the second was used. Rearing conditions, health, welfare
and productive parameters were assessed on each flock,
relating them to the management used. The main difference
between both flocks was the high mortality at the first
week, which was 4% for the second flock (2% for the first).
The lighting shows high variation throughout the shed.
Footpad dermatitis, which is an indicator of animal
welfare, showed very high prevalence on both flocks
probably due to the straw litter. However, the feed
conversion efficiency showed better results than the
company scores.",
}