Medicines And The Chicken: William Osier said: 'The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. 'Let us not thrust our desire on the chicken.

摘要

One of the main objectives of raising poultry is to produce unadulterated wholesome food in the form of eggs and meat. In order to be able to do so, high-performing hybrid strains of chicken are reared on a commercial scale, which is a high-risk sensitive enterprise presenting certain challenges in terms of management (husbandry), nutrition and maintenance of the productive health of the flock. Each of these facets of poultry farming is a complex issue in its own merit and embraces a wide-spectrum of equally complex parameters, putting specific demands on the entrepreneur.