ALTERNATIVES TO LAYING HENS BREEDING IN PEASANT HOUSEHOLDS

This study was held in several householdings in Iasi county, in different villages, under financial limitations, but where the peasants were intending to improve and make more profitable the existing laying hensʹ breeding system. The researched was relied on some minimum but essential measures: actual birds specialized on a specific production (eggs in our case), minimum number of300 head, compliance with a minimum of technical operating and maintenance, compliance with minimum health requirements. Following the calculation of estimated investments for a number of300 laying hens, it results that an egg costs 0.143 lei (under references values). The price of wholesale will be approximately 0.25 lei, which means a net income of 0.107 lei/one egg. The total income achieved in 77 weeks is 8,784.7856 lei. A holding of this type provide an additional income producer. Besides, after applying this study results, one more very important problem is solved: the higher capitalization offorage resources obtained in their own individual farms (eg maize)