Commercial chicken egg production

The objective of this book is to elaborate the commercial chicken production system of India with our own farming perspectives. There is a striking difference between western and Indian poultry production systems, which has to be clearly understood for effective professional practice of poultry production in India. Largely, Indian poultry system is tropical climate based and our experience in tropical chicken egg production is unique.The content of commercial chicken egg production is sequentially presented in the book for easy and comprehensive learning and activities have also been provided at the end of each chapter for practice. The target audience for this book is undergraduate and postgraduate students of veterinary science, poultry science, commercial poultry farm managers, farming aspirants and practicing field veterinary technocrats etc. Title 2 Preface 6 Contents 8 Introduction to CommercialChicken Egg Production 10 Genetic Stocks of ChickenEgg Production 14 Poultry Housing ofLayer Chicken 18 Layer Chicken Management 30 Commercial LayerChicken Feeding 42 Chicken Egg Quality 64 Bio-security inCommercial Layer Farm 82 Common Poultry Diseases 90 Water Quality Management 100 Good HusbandryPractices inCommercial Layer Farming 102 Commercial Chicken LayerFarm Economics 108 Annexure 112 Index 114