Commercial chicken egg production

117 Pages·2021·9.431 MB·English

by  M. Murigan

Commercial Chicken
Egg Production
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The Author
Dr M. Murugan M.V.Sc., Ph.D, MBA (Human Resources) is currently
working as Professor of Poultry Science in Tamil Nadu Veterinary and
Animal Sciences University, Tamil Nadu. He is a prolific writer in the
domain poultry science and has inherent passion for teaching. He is also
a resource person for human resource management in poultry sector.
He has got twenty year of teaching, research and extension service experience in
the field of poultry science with special reference to commercial chicken production
for egg and meat and Japanese quail production. He has published twenty research
articles on poultry science subject in various international and national journals. He
has authored a book titled Commercial broiler chicken production. Currently his
areas of interest are content development, ICT applications and human resource
development through capacity building in poultry science and production sector.
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Commercial Chicken
Egg Production
M. Murugan
2021
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Preface
The chicken egg is a unique, natural, unadulterated and nutrient rich food for
human and animals. Basically, the purpose of egg laying of chicken is to nourish their
young ones during their embryonic development and not for human use. However,
the history of use of chicken egg as human food is traditional and time immemorial.
The history of commercial chicken egg production is recent, when compared to
domestication of chicken. Indian commercial chicken egg production system is
barely fifty years old. Third five plan period is the starting point for commercial
chicken egg production through import of hybrid layers from developed countries.
Development of commercial chicken egg production is a success story of
agriculture and allied sectors of India. India stands on third position in the world egg
production. Geo spatially, India’s rich experience in tropical chicken egg production
is unique in nature. It cannot be compared with developed countries production
system in terms of rearing methods but, production standards of commercial chicken
egg production of India is on par with international standards. The contributing
factors of development are elite genetic stocks, scientific production, vibrant
marketing network and acceptability of the consumers. Now a days egg is becoming
a regular food item in non-vegetarian population especially children.
Standard text books on commercial chicken egg production with Indian farming
perspectives are not available for poultry science students. Considering that, the
objective of the book is to elaborate the commercial chicken egg production with
Indian perspectives and farming systems. The book will be useful for student
of veterinary and animal science, poultry science, farm managers and farming
aspirants. In this book, the contents is sequentially arranged and explained with
examples for easy understanding and activities have been provided at the end of
chapter for practice.
Finally, I want to express my sincere thanks to my wife Abbiramy and my
daughters Muthamil and Manicka for their moral and emotional support to write this
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book successfully. I also express my sincere thanks to my Professor R. Prabakaran,
who always inspire me through his thoughtful and untiring acting and writing in
the field of poultry science.
Dr M. Murugan
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Contents
Preface v
1. Introduction to Commercial Chicken Egg Production 1
2. Genetic Stocks of Chicken Egg Production 5
3. Poultry Housing of Layer Chicken 9
4. Layer Chicken Management 21
5. Commercial Layer Chicken Feeding 33
6. Chicken Egg Quality 55
7. Bio-security in Commercial Layer Farm 73
8. Common Poultry Diseases 81
9. Water Quality Management 91
10. Good Husbandry Practices in Commercial Layer Farming 93
11. Commercial Chicken Layer Farm Economics 99
Annexure 103
Index 105
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1
Introduction to Commercial
Chicken Egg Production
Learning Objectives
1. Know the history of commercial poultry production in India
2. Describe the concepts of commercial chicken egg production in India
3. List the factors responsible for the development of chicken egg production
Commercial chicken egg production is one of the important segments in
commercial poultry production. Poultry production deals with the process of rearing
poultry species of birds for commercial and economic uses, especially for production
of chicken egg and meat. The term, Poultry refers the domesticated species of birds,
used in commercial rearing for food and economic purposes. It includes chicken
(Gallus domesticus), duck (Anas platyrhynchos), goose (Anser anser), turkey (Meleagris
gallopavo), Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica), guinea fowl (Numida meleagris),
ratites such as emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) and ostrich (Struthio camelus). The
study of these poultry species is called as Poultry Science and, the study of all the
birds is collectively called as Ornithology.
Documentary evidences of domestication of poultry suggest that, Red jungle
fowl (Gallus gallus) was domesticated as early as 3200 BC. Egyptian and Chinese
records indicates that, laying of eggs by fowl for human use was dates back to 1500
BC. Chinese records described fowl as domestic time clock, due to cock’s early
morning call and hen’s regular egg production. The number of breeds and varieties
of chickens evolved over the years in worldwide perspective is almost around
two hundred for egg and meat, but only a few are economically important as egg
producers. Commercial chicken egg production is the process of rearing commercial
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