The Intensive Poultry Farming Industry in the Sahelian Zone (CDI, 1996, 56 p.): 1. INTENSIVE POULTRY FARMING IN THE SAHELIAN ZONE: 1.2. General information on intensive poultry farming: 1.2.2. Poultry

The Intensive Poultry Farming Industry in the Sahelian Zone (CDI, 1996, 56 p.)

1. INTENSIVE POULTRY FARMING IN THE SAHELIAN ZONE

1.2. General information on intensive poultry farming

		1.2.1. What is intensive poultry farming?
		1.2.2. Poultry - a living machine
		1.2.3. Choice of breed

1.2.2. Poultry - a living machine

In intensive poultry farming, the production tool is living matter: poultry.

- It consumes air, drinking water and feed.
- It produces eggs and meat.
- It is sensitive to environmental conditions, stress and diseases.
- It pollutes due to emissions of CO₂ (carbon dioxide) and faecal and urinary waste.