FEEDING PROGRAM FOR LAYER EGG PRODUCTION
In recent time, poultry egg production has become a giant and attractive industry. Farmers now consider poultry egg production as one of the most profitable area in livestock production. With it's high return in investment, people without enough knowledge of the enterprise has stormed the business believing that the venture would make them millionaires over a short period of time. People of such category always end up being frustrated due to their expectations that were cut short by problems and challenges beyond their sphere of knowledge. Amount of feed for different age of the layer birds is one of such challenges. While the problem of feeding amount is peculiar to farmers new in the business with little knowledge of the fundamentals of layer egg production, old farmers also fail in efficient feeding program. The importance of good feeding program is centered on the fact that giving birds too little or too much feed would affect productivity of the birds and consequently, the...