Managing prenatal development of broiler chickens to improve productivity and thermotolerance

Zehava Uni; Shlomo Yahav

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-3135-8_3

Managing prenatal development of broiler chickens to improve productivity and thermotolerance

Zehava Uni^*, Shlomo Yahav

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Department of Animal Sciences

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Abstract

In recent decades, the rate of weight gain of meat-type broiler chickens has increased significantly [25, 26]. In the 1960s, a commercial broiler chicken reached the market weight of 2.2 kg by 12 weeks of age; today, broilers attain this same market weight at less than 6 weeks. This impressive improvement is due to the knowledge accumulated by industry poultry managers and researchers from different disciplines - geneticists, nutritionists, physiologists and veterinarians - who have contributed to the optimisation of broiler performance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Managing the Prenatal Environment to Enhance Livestock Productivity
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Pages	71-90
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9789048131358
ISBN (Print)	9789048131341
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3135-8_3
State	Published - 2010

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