›› 2017, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (8): 2533-2539.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2017.08.045

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Effect of Humidity on Broiler Health and Corresponding Measures

SUN Yong-bo, LUAN Su-jun, WANG Ya, SA Ren-na, ZHANG Hong-fu   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
  • Received:2016-11-30 Online:2017-08-20 Published:2017-08-18

Abstract:

With the development of intensive broiler raising, the influence of environmental factors on broiler health are increasingly prominent. Relative humidity is one of the most important indicators of broiler house environment.But in the production process of broiler farming,it is often neglected on the management of humidity in house. Neither low humidity nor high humidity is conducive to the healthy growth of broilers. It is of great significance to strengthen the monitoring of the humidity in broiler houses and study the effects of relative humidity on the health of broiler for guiding the rational control of the humidity in broiler houses and the development of healthy breeding. In this paper, we summarized and analyzed the effects of relative humidity on thermal regulating,growth performance, reproductive performance, blood parameters, meat quality and respiratory tract of broilers, and the monitor and control measures of humidity in the poultry house, aimed to provide a reference for further research on the mechanism of relative humidity affects broiler health and rational regulation of humidity in broiler house.

Key words: broiler; relative humidity; health; measures

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