Nowadays, many people choose to raise chickens to make money, and now they use automatic farming equipment andchicken battery cagesto raise chickens. This is convenient and fast. Now chickens are fed chicken feed to raise chickens.

After the feed enters the digestive tract of the chicken and is digested and absorbed, through a series of metabolic processes, part of the nutrients are excreted through the feces and urine, and some of the nutrients are converted into their own products or eggs. The part of the nutrients used to produce the product or used to lay eggs is more valuable. The so-called feed conversion rate refers to the amount of chicken or eggs produced by consuming 1 kilogram of feed.

There are four main factors that affect feed conversion ratio:

(1) Chicken species and varieties. The chicken itself has a sac, glandular stomach and stomach, but there is no tooth. The sputum is shredded and sent to the sac, the intestine is short, and the feed stays in the digestive tract for a short time. Therefore, the feed conversion rate is low. For the same type of chicken, the conversion rate of feed to different varieties is also different.

(2) Feed factors. The crude fiber content of the feed can greatly affect the feed conversion rate of the chicken. When the crude fiber content in the feed is too high, the digestibility of other nutrients (such as proteins, lipids, etc.) is lowered, which in turn affects the conversion rate. Anti-nutritional factors in feed (such as antitrypsin and blood coagulation factors in soybean, gossypol in cottonseed cake, mustard meal in rapeseed cake, etc.) have adverse effects on the digestion and absorption of feed nutrients, and thus reduce Feed conversion rate.

(3) Feeding environment and stress. Changes in the feeding environment (such as house temperature, humidity, light intensity and time, smell in the house, ventilation, etc.) of the chickens may cause stress in the chickens, leading to metabolic disorders, growth retardation, and decreased egg production rate. The disease resistance is weakened, which in turn affects the feed conversion rate.

(4) Processing and storage forms of feed. The same kind of feed has different nutritional value due to different processing methods for feed chicken inChicken Battery Farm Equipment For Sale. Compared with soybean meal extracted by machine extract, the protein digestibility is about 10%. If the feed is too fine, the feed will stay in the digestive tract of the chicken for a shorter period of time, which will also reduce its nutritional value. In addition, the prolonged feed storage time and the production of pellet feed have adverse effects on certain nutrients in the feed.