Title: Effect of Different Feeding Methods on the Efficiency of Egg Production
Abstract: MANY different feeding methods have given satisfactory results with laying hens and experiments designed to study methods of feeding have in general failed to show any one method of feeding superior to all others. A review of the literature on trials designed to compare different feeding methods reveals much disagreement in the results obtained. The extensive literature on this subject has been reviewed by Ewing (1947), and Heuser (1946), both of whom conclude that the important factor in any feeding method is to supply the birds with a proper balance of nutrients in a form which allows or encourages them to consume sufficient feed to bring out the maximum production of which they are genetically capable. This may be accomplished by a number of feeding methods. Despite these conclusions from a considerable volume of published material, changing conditions in the field of poultry nutrition and management have continued to …