Manejo de aves de corte

Abstract

Among the various animal production systems, poultry farming stands out as one of the most technologically advanced agricultural activities. Worldwide, the poultry industry is one of the main sources of protein of animal origin, intended for human consumption. The poultry production chain has great importance in Brazilian agribusiness, keeping Brazil in a prominent position in global poultry farming for many years (ALFIERI et al., 2000). It should be noted that Brazilian poultry farming is today recognized as one of the most developed in the world, with truly exceptional productivity rates, thanks to quality programs implemented in all links of the chain in recent years, with emphasis on genetics, nutrition, management, biosecurity, good production practices, traceability and animal welfare and environmental preservation programs. This course completion work aimed to describe the management steps with broiler chickens in the School Aviary of the Federal University of Goiás, during the mandatory supervised internship. In this, several broiler management activities were monitored. During the internship, it was possible to observe that management directly influences production results and to obtain results with greater meat production at a lower cost, the factors nutrition, health, genetics and environment must be combined with management.