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Abstract
From a total of 656 broiler farms with the permission of exploitation
in Guilan province, data was gathered from 20%
of active farms including 85 units (Capacity of over 1663000
portions of broiler chickens) to evaluate the management of
nutrition and nourish using questionnaire. The questionnaires
were completed by the interview method. The methods of
making feed, feed formulation, the shape of grain, the frequency
of feeding, the type of dietary supplement and food additives,
the use of experts, feed conversion ratio, causes of mortality, the
age of mortality, drinking and feeding systems, and how to use
fine nourishing (in the shape of supplement or concentrate)
were considered in this study. The performance was calculated
for each broiler farm. According to the production index, the
farms were divided into three groups of weak (200+25), medium
(250+25), and good (300+25) and their differences were compared.
According to the results, among the managerial factors, the
factors such as: feeding system, water quality, the conformity of
ration in nutrition with the needs of commercial strains and
drinking management, have the most portion in creating the
three groups of good, medium and weak, among the broiler
rearing farms. Thus, in the study of each group’s feeding system,
the good group has the highest percentage of using automatic
systems (86/60) and the weak group has the highest percentage
of using manual systems. In comparing three groups regarding
the drinking water quality, it was observed that good, medium
and weak groups drink 92%, 61.84%, and 75% fresh water, respectively.
Furthermore, in the weak group, most of the farms
have used the water with tolerable hardness or saltiness. Finally,
the conformity of strain’s requirement with diet was examined
among groups. The results showed that 16.5% of units followed
this conformity and the percentages of the good, medium, weak
groups was 11.12%, 28%, 53.5%, respectively.