AVALIAÇÃO DAS PRÁTICAS DE MANEJO EM GRANJA DE CORTE NO MUNICÍPIO DE AREIA – PB

Abstract

Brazilian poultry industry is an agricultural activity of reference and a successful production chain, this is the sector has stood out in the field of animal production. In broiler production on a commercial scale, there are basically three production systems in which the poultry farmer can fit: the individual, the integrated and the cooperative. Regardless of the model chosen, the final performance of the batch depends on good management and applied biosecurity techniques. The aim of this work was the following up and evaluation of the system and production management of a batch of broiler from their arrival of 1 day as chicks until the slaughter batch, and also evaluated the applied biosecurity practices. This work was developed in a broiler farm located in the city of Areia-PB. A check list was applied to evaluate the biosecurity conditions of the establishment before receiving the one-day-old batch of chicks and the follow-up, with weekly visits, of the batch until the end of the production cycle. A total of 55,000 1-day-old chicks were housed, 27,500 males and 27,500 females. At the end of the accommodation period, one thousand six hundred and four animals were died and were discarded, corresponding to 2.92% of the total number of chicks housed. Measures related to the productive and hygienic sanitary management are necessary to be adopted correctly in order to obtain positive results.