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Provedor de dados: 	Revista Brasileira de Ciência Avícola	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	The effect of broiler market age on performance parameters and economics	
Autores: 	Schmidt,GS.	
Data: 	2008-12-01	
Ano: 	2008	
Palavras-chave: 	Broiler; Cost; Integrated companies; Performance.	
Resumo: 	In the present study, 35 farmers contracted by an integration company were selected. Each farmer owned an average of seven poultry houses, and housed six flocks per year, with a total of 4.0 million housed broilers. Birds were grouped into 5 market ages (MA1=&lt;43, 43&lt;MA2=&lt;44, 44&lt;MA3=&lt;45, 45&lt;MA4=&lt;46, MA5&gt;46 days), and the following parameters were measured: average flock body weight (AFW), feed conversion ratio (FCR), livability (L), production efficiency index (PEI), production cost, and farmer's gross margin. MA significantly influenced all parameters, except production cost/kg broiler. The effects of farm and farm*MA interaction were not significant. Each day of MA increase resulted in increases of 68.43g and 0.039 units in AFW and FCR, respectively. PEI was 4.0% lower in MA5 as compared to MA1, thereby reducing farmer's compensation in 11.89% per reared broilers. Production costs were not different among market ages, partially due to a reduction from 16.86 (MA1) to 14.62% (MA5) in the farmer's participation in the total cost. The results show that a new farmer's compensation index that included MA is necessary to calculate farmer's margin.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-635X2008000400005	
Editor: 	Fundação APINCO de Ciência e Tecnologia Avícolas	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1516-635X2008000400005	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Brazilian Journal of Poultry Science  v.10 n.4 2008	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess