Poultry farm management system
Broilers should be ready for slaughter in 5-6weeks with an average weight of 1.8 kg. Oladayo advised most farmers to try to use a pre-starter diet for the first week as he does. The poultry farmer needs to be critical when buying feed. If the feed is caking or too dusty, don’t buy. When buying your feed or producing one, check your raw materials for anti-nutritional factors. The transparent curtains will help in lightening during the day time Feed and FeedingĪ good and palatable feed is the key. The farmer can supply light through the night with solar lamps if there is no electricity on the farm as this helps to save cost. It helps to feed, drink and also run around and generate metabolic energy. Lightingįor the first 3 weeks, they need an average of 23 hours of light. They also need a bit of chilly weather to help increase food consumption. Depending on the weather condition, the supply of heat to the broiler house should be a maximum of 3 days. You need to regulate temperature and so on with charcoal, and feeding is manual, etc.īroiler unlike pullet, do not need so much heat. We also have the open house system and it is what the facilitator concentrated on. It is a very good system but more expensive. You have one person taking care of about 50,000 birds. Feeding and drinking system is fully automated too. There is the closed system – this is used by big industrial chicken farms and it is fully automated in terms of temperature control, humidity control and so on. There are different types of houses for rearing poultry birds and this is explained below When using charcoal or kerosene be careful of smoke. Please take note: you can heat with gas brooders or charcoal or kerosene stove. It is possible you heat the room and you are sweating and when you bend down at the level of the birds, it is very cold. The farmer also needs to preheat the room to a required temperature at the level of the birds. If the roof temperature is more than the level of the birds, you need to bring up the curtain to avoid heat stress which will not make the chicks to eat. There are standard temperature requirements, but most importantly, you need to constantly check the temperature at the roof and at the level of the birds. The transparent nylon will also help to light up the pen during day time. It creates a warm, comfortable environment. Enclose the pen with tarpaulins or transparent nylon. You need to take total charge of the internal temperature of the pen. If you use detergents, it may not be properly rinsed and may affect the quality of drugs and vaccines. Subsequently, use ordinary water to wash. Wash your chick drinker and tray thoroughly, possibly with detergents and disinfectants if you have used them previously. After placing the litter, spray with insecticide (DD force or sniper) and disinfectants. If you have an existing house, remove all litters, wash with detergents and bleach. If you have a new pen, you need to put new litters in the form of wood shaving (not sawdust). The farmer needs to have a clean environment before chicks arrival. The pen is prepared before the arrival of chicks which is known as LITTER MANAGEMENT. So, one needs to be very careful when sourcing day-old chicks. There is an increasing demand for day-old chicks by poultry farmers and this creates a loophole for unwarranted practices within the hatchery business. The first step is sourcing your day-old chicks from the right hatchery. This is an opportunity for many farmers, although there are many threats if one is not equipped with the right information and adequate knowledge. Obviously, this is the position we find ourselves since the closure of the border – no turkey, chicken, and fish might be coming in.
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Farm manager at Bitmas integrated dairy farm, Zaria.Production assistant at Grandparents stock farm, Obasanjo farm at Lanlate.
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Here is the highlight of the November edition of our monthly webinar with our facilitator Mr Oladayo Ogundiran.Ī graduate of the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta with a degree in Animal science, Mr Oladayo’s work experience includes the following positions: This is to help them maximize production for the season while stocking for the new year. Following the high demand for poultry products this season, Afrimash has seen the need to bring resources to farmers.