Category: Poultry Care

Poultry Management and Care (new) I Mshindo Media

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Poultry Guide1. Select your Poultry Niche The poultry industry is a broad niche. There are many sub-sectors in the poultry industry which you can tap into. When poultry farming is mentioned, a lot of people take that to mean chicken rearing or turkey rearing alone but poultry farming is a very wide business with different aspects. Below are niches in the poultry business: Egg production (Layers breeding)Meat production (Broilers breeding)Chicken breeding (Hatchery)Poultry feed productionPoultry equipment manufacturingEgg and meat processing, packaging and marketingPoultry marketing and consultancy So, you see that poultry…

Brooding and Rearing Chicks for the Growing Chickens (new)

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CHICK MANAGEMENT AND SELECTION. It’s very important to know about how to buy baby chickens if you want to have healthy and productive chickens. You must have to buy high quality and healthy baby chickens to achieve the successful and wonderful goal of raising chickens. Buying good quality chicks will ensure healthy flock and your dream of collecting fresh eggs from your very own hens that you have raised from the chicks.  However, here we are describing more about how to buy baby chickens. Note CHOOSE BREED. First of all…

Poultry Meaning, Management, Breeding & Disease Control

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Introduction Poultry , (Gallus gallus domesticus), any of more than 60 breeds of medium-sized poultry that are primarily descended from the wild red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes) of India. As are domesticated avian species that can be raised for eggs, meat and/or feathers. The term “poultry” covers a wide range of birds, from indigenous and commercial breeds of chickens to Muscovy ducks, mallard ducks, turkeys, guinea fowl, geese, quail, pigeons, ostriches and pheasants. The term poultry refers to domesticated birds kept for meat, eggs and feather production. Domestication of poultry is thought to have started in…

Feeding Guides for Broiler Chickens

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How much water do your chicks need? Make sure your chicken always have water. Without enough water they will not grow well. For each 1 g of feed, your chicks need 2 g of water. For the first 3-5 days, add to the water:      Clean the drinkers every day.  Feeding guide for your broilers In order to have a healthy and strong flock of broilers, make sure you follow this feeding guide using Unga Farmcare EA feeds: Change feed slowly: When chicks are out of the brooder, remove feeding trays. Hang the feeders from…

Broiler Management

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BroilerIt is a bird of about 8 weeks of age of either sex (straight-run chicks) with an average body weight of 1.5 to 2.0 kg with a flexible breast bone cartilage, pliable and tender meat. Housing systemsBroilers can be housed on deep-litter, slatted or wire floor or cages.  However, cage, slat and wire floor rearing of broilers are not as popular as litter floor rearing, due to problems like breast blisters, leg weakness and higher initial investment. Rearing systemsThe systems of rearing refer to either single batch at a time…