Dear Dr. Sunil Gamage,
 
Thank you for the input.
It may also be pertinent to mention that in our FP scheme we are providing 
4-week old chicks in tapering manner in 3 stages -20,15,10 approx 16 week apart.  
This however is keeping in view the fact that after 16 weeks the farmer can sell off
the males and have another batch from the money which s/he gets- thus by default
having around 3 different age groups after 3 batches. But we had not imagined it from
the feed resource angle.
 
Thank you for the references.
 
With kind regards,
 
Sujit Nayak 
 
On 07/06/12, Sunil Gamage <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Dear Dr Sujit Nayak

In Sri Lanka the land holdings of recipient are limited. Therefore, I
found that by providing such families with a flock of birds with
different adult body sizes gave a better production (with scavnging
only) than a unform size flock of birds such as Giriraj and Vanaraj.
This is due to the limitation of the feed resource base and th body
maintenance requiements. Plase refer  Guneratne SP and Roberts paper
on feed resource base.

With kind regards

Sunil Gamage

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Sunil Gamage




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