With feed prices at a very high level, this article looked at a few aspects of appetite and consumption in poultry.
Appetite and food consumption are not strictly the same thing, the former being the physiological drive to eat, and the latter being the resultant effect of appetite. In other words, while a bird has a drive to eat, food intake can be reduced by factors such as competition from other birds, fineness of the mash, over-debeaking, and so on. Or food intake may be
