poultry

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...

Fowl Pox Prevention & Treatment Fowl pox is a highly contagious viral infection in poultry that causes painful sores on a chicken’s skin. Also referred to as Avian Pox, Sorehead, Avian Diphtheria and Chicken Pox, it is unrelated to human chicken pox and cannot be contracted by people from...

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...

Vices are any bad or abnormal behaviours observed among chicken.....they include egg eating and cannibalism..... Causes of egg eating--1.too much light in the chicken coup. 2.too much exposure of eggs.. 3.calcium...

Did you know that apart from pawpaw fruit being rich in proteins,fats and carbohydrates it's seeds are also medicinal? Papaya seeds in poultry production keeps off coccidiosis,bacterial and parasitic infections,prevents inflammations in birds,improves digestion and they are natural...

We will look into different improved kienyeji breeds

Microbial decomposition of sawdust or wood shavings to make feeds for your birds in free range area. First you need to have a free range area for your chicken..fill it with alot of sawdust or wood shavings. 1.Visit your nearest agrovet and purchase EM-1 which is a chemical that accelerates the...

The type(s) of fleas that can affect your flock directly depends on where you live. Fleas can cause anemia, decreased egg production, irritability, malaise, and restlessness. Chickens fleas are less common than mites and poultry lice. Fleas thrive during warmer months. One of the best ways of...