Broilers
Ponco provides support to optimise general performance of broiler farms & integrations:
- Nutrition: raw material and additives evaluation, nutritional requirements
- Feed processing: grinding/conditioning/pelletisation, pellet quality & viscosity
- Farm management
- Poultry Research Centre; Ponco’s floor pen facility to evaluate feed concepts & additive solutions
Heat stress broiler chickens
Heat stress is caused by sudden or prolonged heat and results in growth retardation and unnecessary mortality. Broilers don't have sweat glands so they are unable to sweat. Heat stress can be recognized by chicks with an open beak and their wings wide apart