Successful hatchery management depends on the right tools to monitor the needs of the egg and chick, and properly trained staff to measure and react to those requirements. Despite advances in modern technology, the best tools available to hatchery workers remain their own sense of sight, hearing and smell. Initial identification of a problem is down to individuals recognizing the…
Every farmer must endeavour to adjust to every temperature change because the temperature of birds generally requires attention to avoid losing birds as a result of heat stress. Farmers are adviced to have good thermometer to enable them know when temperature changes. Animals that live in captivity do not fully develop their instinct to cope with heat, which is why…
The word ‘suck’ is a term used for referring to something that is bad. That is, something done without the commensurate or expected result… According to urbandictionary.com, the term originated from jazz musicians. The early Jazz musicians would say that someone could really "Blow" if he had a good sound when playing thehorn... If he couldn't play very well, then they would say…
There are very important ingredients that must be present in layers’feed and they include; SaltCalciumVitaminsProteinProteinWater Salt: Every animal needs salt. If you subtract salt from the food list it will reduce the egg production rate. Most of the animal’s food contains salt in the form of sodium chloride. It doesn’t contain any iodine. Sodium is an important nutrient which plays…
Many poultry farmers still do not know that there are better and standard poultry equipment that can give better productivity and also ease stress in the poultry activities while some who are new in the field may not know what and what to put in place as they go into the business. So it is imperative we know our poultry…
Worm infestation is a very delicate issue in poultry but unfortunately many poultry farmers neglect it at times. ROUTINE poultry worming is important to producers of commercial flocks and keepers of back-yard poultry. With the number of free-range flocks increasing, parasitic worms have potentially become more of a threat in commercial flocks in recent times. some small-scale farmers may not know…
Heat is produced by essential bodily processes (metabolism) which include maintenance, growth and egg production. Heat production is affected by body weight, species and breed, level of production, level of feed intake, feed quality and, to a an extent, by the amount of activity and exercise.Heat is generated when there is an increase in temperature may be as a result…
There are good feeding practices that farmers abuse, thinking that they are not necessary, while sometimes they do or neglect them ignorantly and along the line they encounter problems such as reduced weight, disease outbreak, poor growth etc. There are some good feeding practices that seems common but they are very important, some say you can apply common sense, but at times…
Pest’s management practices in poultry Pests are those creatures that are not wanted in the poultry environments especially, inside the poultry house. Pests are unwanted creatures because they fight against the progress of the poultry farmers by destroying the health of their birds which is their main target in business. Some pests are more deadly than some diseases. Every farmer…
You cannot talk of bio-security in poultry production without considering the environment of the birds and the birds’ environment include all the things around the birds both living and non-living and they involve the following; feeding troughs, water troughs, feeds, water, the poultry floor, drugs, temperature ranges, light source e.t.c. Bio-security simply means the important measures taken to prevent and…
