Resumen de SE 16. Poultry farm management using two-cycle or three cycle molting programs. A study case
R. Medina, L. G. González, Armando Aguilar, Frida Leon, A. F. Altamirano, O. R. Gomez
Poultry industry is a transfor and extractive one for industrial and human consumption, it creates products and by-products, occupies feedstuffs, generates direct and undirect employees and allocates treasury evenues. A case study: A poultry farm called “La Linda” with its aim to produce white and red eggs, employes two-cycle or three cycle molting programmes. This farm housing 60 000 hens. The practice of recycling becomes one of cost analysis and to do so we must take in account management practices to determine economic and technical feasibility in this poultry farm. Some of the factors involved are: production farm rate of eggs/day. Daily kg production, pic production, lenght of egg production maximum period, egg size, average weight of boxes, daily feed consumption, overall feed consumption by hens, mortality monthly percentage and feed conversion/eggs kg. Amortization of bird is not taken in account due to the fact that hens are bought at $3.00 each and sold at $5.00 after two or three cycles molting programmes. At this price allows a monthly mortality as high as 1.2 % in second year. So in this case suty were obtained good production percentages that allowed an economic feasibility as eggs are sold direct to consumers, avoiding commercial middlemen and considering sale of dispossessed hens.
