Technological aspects of increasing broiler efficiency poultry farming

Poultry products in the food market have always been a stabilizing factor as a socially significant and economically accessible product. The main objectives of the poultry industry in the near future are import substitution, providing poultry enterprises with the necessary resources, and increasing the volume of its own production of eggs and poultry meat. An urgent problem is the development and use of domestic feed additives for poultry farming, which contain a wide range of biologically valuable substances in an easily digestible form, stimulating the vitality, growth and development of young animals, which are an alternative to the use of antibiotics, providing an increase in production and economic indicators and promoting environmentally safe products. In this regard, chitosan complexes are of great scientific and practical interest, which are considered as an additive with multifunctional activity, including as a means of increasing the productivity of broiler chickens and improving the quality of products obtained from broiler poultry farming. The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of using the new chitose complex “KX-1” in the technology of growing broiler chickens under conditions of increased stocking density of 23.5 birds/m². Broilers of the 1st control group received feed with standard nutritional value; broilers of experimental groups 2-4 were additionally introduced to a similar diet with a chitosan complex at the rate of 50, 70 and 100 g/t throughout the entire growing period. The conducted studies showed that the use of the chitosan complex “KH-1” at a dosage of 70 g/t of feed when raising broiler chickens under conditions of increased planting density has a positive effect on their productive performance, including by stimulating the growth of symbiotic microflora, primarily lactobacilli of the genus Lactobacillus. In this regard, it is important to further study the effectiveness of the use of chitosan complexes in poultry production technology.