PRODUCTIVITY OF MEAT POULTRY UNDER COLLECTIVE AND SEPARATE KEEPING
The article presents research on the study of the productive qualities of chickens under collective and separate keeping. The hens of the experimental group had the highest egg production, where chickens and roosters up to 150 days of age were kept separately, so the difference on average over the period of 60 weeks in egg production was 14.9 eggs per average laying hen. The technology of poultry meat production which provides for separate keeping contributed to improving the livability of adult livestock. Eggs with a higher weight were obtained from the hens of the 1st group. So, for 60 weeks of the experiment the average egg weight from the hens of the 1st group was 61.2 g which is 1.0% or 0.7 g greater than those of the 2nd group. According to other morphological indicators, the difference in the groups is insignificant. The livability of poultry in the 2nd (experimental) group was 93.5% against 88.2% in the control. The obtained data on feed costs per 10 eggs at the age of 56 days showed that they were the smallest in the experimental group, so the feed costs for the production of 10 eggs in the control group amounted to 4.9 kg, which is 20.9% greater compared to the second group.