MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR
POULTRY
GROWING PERIOD (LAYERS)
 Commences after the
birds no longer need
supplement heat.
 Management during this
period is critical and must
be effective.
 It affects the
performance
during laying or
breeding periods.
GROWING HOUSE
 Brood-grow house
- For brooding phase
only.
 Grow house
- Growing stage only
 Grow-lay house
- Growing to laying
Different stages have
different needs of chicks.
 Provide additional floor,
feed and water space.
 Maintain proper height
and arrangement of
equipment.
(feeder and waterer)
- Para hindi mataihan
- Less feed waste
- More space
 Provide more ventilation
MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
CULLING – removing of
undesirables such as:
1. Inferior
2. Crippled
3. Injured
4. Deformed
- As long as it is pecking and
still laying eggs, it is okay.
- Money depends on culling.
- Use catching hook.
LIGHTING PROGRAM
MANAGEMENT OF LAYERS
HOUSING BIRDS
 Move to the laying quarter
before the onset of lay
 Adequate floor space
 Proper equipment and
facilities
 Sorting pullets according
to weight is not practical
LIGHTING PROGRAM
 Sufficient light needed for
secretion of hormones.
2 HORMONES (helps to produce
eggs)
1. Follicle Stimulating
Hormone
- it will stimulate the egg
growth
2. Luteinizing Hormone
- initiates egg formation
PHOTOPERIODISM- length of
light received
FOLLICLE- egg
LIGHT INTENSITY
 Should not be less than
ONE CANDLE POWER at
bird’s level
- 3 watts of incandescent
light or a minimum of ¾
watt of fluorescent per sq.
meter or 0.5 - 1.0 candle
power /5.8 lux.
LIGHTING FIXTURES
 Not more than 8ft from
floor.

RECOMMENDED: 9-10 hours.
Increase light hour during the
growing period by 30 minutes
for every 2 weeks until a
maximum of 16-18 hours of
 16-18 hours of light
exposure throughout the
laying period.
 Abrupt change- causes
high incidences of
prolapse and blowouts.
PROLAPSE- During the process
of laying an egg, the lower part
of a hen's reproductive tract is
temporarily turned inside out.
BLOWOUTS- The lower part of
a hen's oviduct turns inside out
and protrudes through the
vent.
 Use a time clock for
efficient light control.
 Never decrease light hours
anytime during the laying
period.
 Provide artificial light
during dark overcast days.
 In a multi-deck layer cage
system, supply minimum
light intensity.
MONITORING BODY WEIGHT OF flock anytime during the
LAYERS laying period.
2. TERMINAL CULLING-
 Body weight-should
removing entire flock
conform with that
when it is no longer
recommended by the
profitable to keep them.
breeders at any given time
within the production Rigid Culling can be practiced
period. when layers are over 30 weeks in
 First 10-16 weeks of age – production.
body weight generally
REASONS FOR CULLING
increases
- after this period  Feed savings
 Decreased mortality
 Reduces competition and
 Layers should never be provides more space for
allowed to have excess good layers.
body weight if high egg  Improve hen-day egg
production is to be production
maintained.
- birds with low body REASONS FOR NOT CULLING
weight, likewise, do not  Labor cost to do the job
perform well.  May scare the birds
CULLING OF BIRDS  Problems in disposal of
culls
 Kinds of birds to be culled  Increased fixed per bird
 Unproductive  Today’s bird are good for
layers that very few quit laying.
- Poor
layers
- Non-
layers
 Sickly/defective
layers
- Injured
- Prolapse/
blowouts
- Emaciated
- Birds
afflicted
with
chronic
diseases.

METHODS OF CULLING

1. INDIVIDUAL CULLING-
removing birds from the