Performance of Floor Reared White Leghorn Layer on Different Stocking Density and Feed Restriction Regimes

Abstract

Increase in feed prices in recent years has stimulated renewed interest in the area of fee d restriction and simultaneously the birds have to provide space for feeding, watering and normal movements for their optimum growth and production. Thus, a great emphasis has been laid on feeding system, which employs the use of quantitative or qualitative feed restriction. During growing phase 468 White Leghorn (WLH) birds from random bred control population housed on deep litter housing system were exposed to three feeding regimes viz. T (ad lib.), T (Skip-two-days a week) and T (75% of ad lib.) on three different 1 2 3 stocking densities viz. S (2.5 ft /bird; 20 birds/pen), S (2.0 ft /bird; 25 birds/pen) and S (1.5 ft /bird; 33 1 2 3 2 2 2