ROSS 308 Hatching eggs for sale

ROSS 308

The Ross 308 is a robust, fast-growing, feed efficient broiler with good meat yield. It is designed to satisfy the demands of customers who require consistency of performance and the versatility to meet a broad range of end-product requirements.

Cost-effective production of chicken meat depends on achieving good bird performance and the following points are important for optimizing the performance of the Ross 308 broiler:

• Maximize chick quality by good management of hatching, storage, and transport conditions.
• Design the brooding set-up to ensure easy access to water and feed at placement, and to ease the transition between supplementary systems and the automated feeders and drinkers at 4-5 days. Feed a highly digestible and nutritionally balanced Starter diet.
• Keep chicks in their thermal comfort zone by monitoring chick behavior but beware of low relative humidities (less than 50% RH). Establish a minimum ventilation program from day one.
• Monitor crop fill, feeding and drinking behavior, and 7-day live weight to allow continuous improvement of the brooding set-up.
•  Keep birds in their thermal comfort zone throughout the growing period. Fast-growing broilers produce large amounts of heat, particularly in the second half of the grow-out period. Keeping ambient temperatures less than 21ºC (69.8ºF) from 21 days onwards may improve growth rates.
• Maintain high standards of biosecurity and cleanliness to keep disease to a minimum.