Effect of Housing System (Battery Cages Versus Floor Pen) on Performance of Laying Hens under Tropical Conditions in Congo Brazzaville

Banga-Mbok, H.; Adzona, Prudence Pitchou

doi:10.3923/rjpscience.2010.1.4

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“…Samiullah et al (3) found that egg weight, Haugh unit, shell weight, shell ratio, and shell thickness values of eggs in a conventional-cage system were higher than those of eggs in a free-range system and, similar to our results, those values increased with flock age, except for Haugh unit, which decreased. However, in other studies there were no differences between housing systems for shell weight (14,16) and Haugh unit (17). In this study generally the temperature was low in the FR system depending on outdoor access and this might have contributed to albumen quality and Haugh unit value of eggs.…”

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Impact of different housing systems and age of layers on egg quality characteristics

Dikmen¹,

İpek²,

Şahan³

et al. 2017

Turk J Vet Anim Sci

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The material for the current research was obtained from 480 layers (Lohmann Brown) housed in conventional-cage (CC), enriched-cage (EC), and free-range (FR) production systems between 22 and 60 weeks of age. A total of 720 eggs were analyzed for external and internal egg quality traits.The three housing systems were located within the same research unit of Uludağ University. Two cage systems, CC and EC, were installed in a windowed and fan-ventilated cage hen house with both cage types in the same room. The FR system was located 120 m from the cage hen house.The CC system consisted of galvanized wire cages (50 × 45 × 45 cm) with a trough-type galvanized feeder, egg belt, manure belt, and nipple drinker. Each CC cage provided a total of 562.5 cm 2 floor area per hen.The EC system cages met the requirements of EU Directive 1999/74/EC. The EC system consisted of 2 tiers, and each tier consisted of 2 cages (4 EC cages). The EC

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Impact of different housing systems and age of layers on egg quality characteristics

Dikmen¹,

İpek²,

Şahan³

et al. 2017

Turk J Vet Anim Sci

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“…Thus, it could be avowed from the results that AI might have exerted no direct effect on requirement of feed of experimental hens rather it was magnitude of exercise, hens have to face during AI, which might have ascended the need of some extra feed to compensate the wasted energy by movement by due procedure. These annotations are in line with the findings of some other researchers like Banga-Mboko et al (2010) who convinced that movement did matter in need of feed and caged birds produced well with less feed consumption in comparison to floored hens. The hectic procedure of AI was legitimated when feed consumption was found the highest in those hens which were inseminated frequently (4&6 th days) as compared to those which were inseminated with far a partly intervals (8&10 th days).…”

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Effects of Different Mating Strategies on Productive Performance, Bird Welfare and Economic Appraisal of Broiler Breeder under Two Production Systems

Shaheen

Mehmood

Mahmud

et al. 2020

Braz. J. Poult. Sci.

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“…Research has found out that high temperature is detrimental to efficient production and reproduction by poultry [8]. The research reported that under elevated temperatures, feed intake and egg production are reduced [9,10].…”

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Comparative Efficiency of Table Egg Farms Under Two Different Production Systems in Oyo State, Nigeria

Paul¹,

Adebola²,

Dare³

et al. 2017

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This study was a comparative economic analysis of poultry egg production under different production systems in Oyo State, Nigeria. Primary data were collected with the aid of a structured questionnaire from 134 (75 battery cage and 59 deep litter systems) poultry farmers through a multistage sampling procedure in three agricultural zones of the State. Descriptive statistics, budgetary techniques, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Tobit regression and student-t test methods were used to analyze the data. Results showed that the mean ages of the farmers were 44 and 40years for battery cage and deep litter systems respectively, while 97.3% and 97.0% of battery cage and deep litter system users had formal education respectively. Also, 78.9% and 88.1%; 65.3% and 57.6%; 25.3% and 28.8% of battery cage and deep litter users were male, members of cooperative society and had extension contacts respectively while 57.3% and 76.3%; 86.7 and 84.8% of battery cage and deep litter users used Isah Brown breed and commercial feed respectively. The Net Farm Incomes (NFI) per bird for battery cage system were N2,052.17; N1,282.86 and N1,605.28 while that of deep litter system were N1,897.84; N1,467.46 and N1,236.06 for small, medium and large scale farmers respectively. DEA revealed that the mean technical efficiencies for battery cage and deep litter systems were 0.892 and 0.912. Tobit regression revealed that the determinants of technical efficiency of farmers using battery cage system were extension visits (p<0.01); gender (p<0.01); farmers' years of education (p<0.05) and membership of cooperative society (p<0.05). Also, the efficiency of farmers using deep litter system was influenced by breed of bird (p<0.01); feed type (p<0.01) and gender (p<0.01). This study concluded that there is no efficiency loss in the choice of either of the systems, except that expansion may be restricted in deep liter system if land constraints exist. The study recommended that farmers who wish to invest in poultry egg production are at liberty to choose either of the systems depending on the intended scale of production.

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Effect of Housing System (Battery Cages Versus Floor Pen) on Performance of Laying Hens under Tropical Conditions in Congo Brazzaville

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Impact of different housing systems and age of layers on egg quality characteristics

Impact of different housing systems and age of layers on egg quality characteristics

Effects of Different Mating Strategies on Productive Performance, Bird Welfare and Economic Appraisal of Broiler Breeder under Two Production Systems

Comparative Efficiency of Table Egg Farms Under Two Different Production Systems in Oyo State, Nigeria

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