This document discusses best practices for raising chickens from chick quality through early management. It covers: 1) Preparing housing and ensuring biosecurity through measures like high fences and restricting contact with outside birds. 2) Transporting high quality chicks and minimizing differences in age or immune status between parent flocks. 3) Providing proper feed, water, and litter material for newly arrived chicks in the brooding area. 4) Following best practices for brooding, feeding, and watering chicks to set them up for good production outcomes.

1. Presented By
Dr. Prakash Sanas
DGM
Technical Department

2. First age in Life of Birds

3. Back to the Basic
Houses Preparation and Biosecurity
Chick Quality and Transportation
Feed Quality and Feeder
Water Quality and Drinker
Management and Knowledge
Good Production

4. Chick Quality and Transportation

5. Brooding of Chicks

6. Brooding

7. Feed Quality and Feeder
Layer Chick Crumble

8. Water Quality

9. Feed Preparation For Chick Arrival
Litter material should be spread evenly to a depth of 3–
4 in (7.5–10 cm) and then levelled and compacted in
the brooding area.
 The necessary equipment must be assembled in the
appropriate configuration.

10. Chick Quality
 Layer chicks placements should be
planned to ensure:
✔ Differences in age and/or immune
status of parent flocks are minimized.
 One parent flock per Layer flock is the ideal.
 For large farm complexes, one production house could
be considered to be one flock.

11. How is Biosecurity Achieved ?
 Outside Perimeter
 High fences prevent intruders such as animals and people
from entering the premises and possibly transmitting
diseases to the flock.

12. What are the Economic Benefits of
Biosecurity ?
 By reducing diseases and pathogens:
 The producer saves money by not having to euthanize
(kill painlessly) all the birds in the infected flock.
 Depending on the size of the flock, the economic loss could be
worth millions of dollars.

13. How is Biosecurity Achieved ?
 No contact with outside birds
 Since most avian diseases are transmitted through the
air, it is highly important to have no contact with outside
birds within 72 hours of entering a facility.
 This includes pets as well as birds from other flocks.

14. Management and Knowledge

15. Good Production

16. Thank You