RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTAL AND PRODUCTION CHECK OF THE OPERATION OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL MODULE FOR GROWING BROILERS
Currently, the broiler chicken meat production is the most important sector of the livestock industry in the Russian Federation. In the first half of 2022 the poultry production increased by 0.7% - to 532.1 thousand tons. The main role here belongs to the large-scale agricultural enterprises. Private farms and smallholdings find it difficult to compete with large farms. Such farms feature the smaller production volumes and lack of modern engineering support. The technological modules for housing and rearing broiler chickens are of great promise in this regard. They introduce several advanced technical, technological, and space-planning solutions to the small-scale poultry farming and scale the advantages of industrial production technology to the private sector. The study output was the mathematical models for determining the amount of feed and the live weight gain of broiler chickens depending on their housing time in a technological module with a controlled microclimate. The accuracy of these parameters is of utmost importance since the feed costs account for 50 to 70% of all production costs. The experimental data obtained allows deriving the dependencies between the feed consumption and the live weight gain of broiler chickens.