chicken brooding & hatching

Some call this "buttock syndrome"????...we'll, this is not that, the name of this condition is called "pasty butt" or "pasted vent"..This is a condition that occurs in early stages of chicks development when droppings stick to the down surrounding their vents.Poops build up to form blockage of...

This you can easily achieve by selecting special flock of say 20 birds to specialize in laying fertile eggs and group them separate with maximum 4 cocks of desired traits. Once you have your eggs which will be maximum of 140 in 1 week, some of the birds will be broody as local poultry get...

Is it normal for laying hens to skip laying eggs, and if so what's the cause? In egg production with birds that have been confirmed to be good layers, there is always a naturally occurring period within which the birds don't lay (called skip) and period of laying (called clatch). This skip and...

Check out this article I found: What you need to know before starting a chicken hatchery business. Also, you can check out this video I found online.

This chart shows you how to tell if your eggs have any issues.

Advice for Brooding & Raising Chicks This is one of the most challenging parts of poultry farming however, brooding chicks can be one of the easiest practices in poultry production if done right! First, you need to make your brooders using plywood. Next, select the litter to use on your flour...

How to stop your chicks from dying: Every farmer desires 100 percent survival of chicks once he or she has bought and put them in a brooding house. Losses will, however, almost always occur especially during the first two weeks of life. A mortality of 1-5 percent may be considered normal, but...

Unsucessful hatches explained. Causes and solutions. Unsuccessful hatches can be caused by infertile eggs or embryo mortality. Each of these conditions can be diagnosed by Candling Eggs. (Please also consider this alternative method to check for embryo mortality.) It is important to examine eggs...

I saw this post from @Keystone Poultry Farm... Egg candling is one of the most important and crucial parts of incubation. It is the process of observing the internal structure of an egg through a bright source of light in a very dark room to test the following. 1-Checking on egg fertility...

Cheap is very very expensive! Some of the incubators people run to buy from chuomings and fake dealers can be very costly to you in the longrun. Kama vijana tunahusle labda ata unakopa Tala ama mshwari na after 21 days unapata incubator imeboil mayai hata unashindwa utalia ama uite bash ya...