Category: Poultry

Poultry birds is a category of domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of collecting their eggs, or killing for their meat or feathers. Types of Poultry Chickens Many different breeds of chickens have been developed for different purposes. For simplicity, you can place them into three general categories: Laying, meat-producing and dual-purpose breeds. Laying Breeds: These breeds are known for their egg-laying capacity. Popular laying breeds include the White Leghorn, Red Sex Link and Black Sex Link breeds. A healthy hen will lay eggs for several years. Hens…

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One of the problems confronting egg users and egg producers in egg production include what is called “Egg glut”. Egg glut can simply be defined as that period when eggs are surplus or in abundance with low purchase or consumption demand. Eggs accumulate on the farms as chickens continue to eat and lay while middlemen/wholesalers either refuses to pick them up for sale or drastically increase the quantity they buy. Egg glut usually occurs at least once in a year and there are so many factors that might be responsible…

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Record maintenance is a crucial activity in any businesses especially in poultry production or your chicken farm . It will serve as important source for monitoring and evaluation, to analyze the profit or losses made so far on your farm. A business can be efficiently managed, only if proper recording of data is carried out periodically. So we should take outlets farming as a business. By: Vet Charles ssekatawa The records maintained are primarily a documentation of accountability and secondarily a data system for management. They should be reliable and…

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Some farmers witness the intestines coming out and pecked as they lay from birds on their poultry farm but many times, the farmers decide to suffer in silence because of not knowing the cause or the problem or how to resolve them and sometimes we blame a particular breeder that their birds peck too much. This may happen in broiler chicken if you are into broiler production , layer chicken, or others which is the reason why in poultry production, there is also a need for quality poultry feed production…

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When we talk about Poultry farming, it literally means the rearing of different types of poultry birds such as duck rearing, rearing chicken, quails, turkey, emu, broiler, etc. However, the principles and practices underlying are the same. Meanwhile after beef, the meat consumed during parties, ceremonies and festive periods in Nigeria and other major parts of the world is poultry meat. Although cattle meat and poultry meat are on the competitive line, as poultry meat occupies the first position during festive periods, especially during Christmas, Easter and other special periods.…

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To start with your poultry farming, you should know that there are certain guides to put you through with regards to how to make money in poultry farming and become a successful poultry farmer. Usually in the poultry farming business, there are three breeds of birds, which are Layers, Cockerels, and Broilers and the differences between them. Broilers grow very fast as in about twelve weeks after the hatch, they are ready for selling. The major advantage of Layers is that they are very lucrative because they lay eggs and…

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