Özet:

It is a known fact that chicken meat has an important potential in meeting the animal protein needs of people especially in developing countries. In human nutrition, chicken meat is one of the leading cheap and high quality protein sources besides its taste and flavor. The purpose of broiler chicken production is to raise chickens that grow fast, make better use of feed and produce quality carcass. The rate of growth is directly related to the genetic characteristics, physiology and metabolism of the animal. In order to obtain the production potential expected from this superior material, broilers should be grown under optimal conditions. The most important environmental conditions that determine efficiency in production is feding. Nowadays, researches are carried out on the application of early feeding in addition to standard feeding methods in 2 different periods as the pre-hatching period (incubation period) and the post-hatching period. These applications, known as in ovo and pre-starter feed, are feeding methods to increase the performance applied outside the broiler standard feeding period. Feeding chicks in the early period is essential for their systems to complete their rapid and precise development. In this review, the importance of feeding fast growing commercial broiler chickens with pre-starter feed at the end of incubation and early period for the first 0-5 days and its effect on their performance in the following periods were tried to be revealed.

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