Carbohydrates compounds with carbon hydrogen and oxygen are an energy source for animals and make up the largest portion of a poultry diet. Water softens feed and carries it through the digestive tract. Water plays an important role in the body of an animal. An animal can live without food longer than it can live without water. Water is often overlooked but it is one of the most important nutrients. Nutrients provide poultry the energy and material needed for the development of bone flesh feathers and eggs. Animals use energy to perform normal body functions such as breathing walking eating digesting and maintaining body temperature. Animals eat to acquire the energy and building materials that they need to live and grow.

Whatever the production system all management procedures with adult stock � during incubation and hatching brooding of young chicks and rearing of young meat and layer stock � should focus on meeting the birds� physiological requirements at all stages of life by providing an ideal physical environment minimizing exposure to disease meeting the birds� behavioral and social needs and providing them with clean water and goodquality feed that satisfies their nutrient requirements. Chickens turkeys ducks and geese are of primary importance while guinea fowl and squabs young pigeons are chiefly of local interest. The most common and widely raised poultry birds are chicken. Poultry farming means �raising various types of domestic birds commercially for the purpose of meat eggs and feather production�. ‎Poultry Farming & Feed Formulations : Nutrition Methods & Strategies of Feeding‎ United States Estados Unidos Estados Unidos États-Unis

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