Commercial Poultry Production and Hatchery Management

INTENSIVE SYSTEM

• In this system, birds are confined in poultry houses or cages and do not have any access to grassland at all.
• Capital outlay is high but protection is usually high also.
• In the intensive system of poultry rearing high attention must be paid to the feeding of birds by providing complete ration since they are not able to eat insects, worms and greens to supplement their feeding.
• Under intensive system of rearing three systems are usually followed:
  • Deep litter system
  • Wire / slatted floor system
  • Cage system