A STUDY ON THE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE OF COBB 500 BROILER BREEDER PARENT STOCK IN M. M. AGHA POULTRY FARM

Abstract

The study was undertaken on seventeenth thousand six hundred Cobb500 broiler breeder parent stock at M.M.AGHA Limited, Dewan Nagar, Hathazari, Chittagong from 09th August to 31th August, 2016. The objective of the study was to observe the management practice like brooding, feeding, lighting, medication, vaccination, biosecurity etc. & production performance like average feed intake, average live weight gain, feed conversion ratio, health status and mortality of Cobb 500 broiler parent stock in the existing management system of M.M. AGHA Poultry farm. The feeding system was Adlibitum basis. Temperature, humidity and ventilation was controlled automatically within the open house system rearing of broiler breeder parent stock. The production performance parameters showed that average body weight gain of cobb500 male and female was 1120gm and 830gm respectively, mortality rate was 2.31%. From the analysis of data it can be said that Cobb500 has overall good performance that can fulfill the customer's demand. Therefore it may be inferred that Cobb 500 performed well under the existing management system