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Poultry

Problems or Constraints of Poultry and Guidelines to Improve Poultry production

Poultry generally refers to domesticated birds that are used mainly as food for man. These include domestic fowl, ducks, turkeys, guinea fowl, pheasant, quails, ostrich, pigeons, doves, etc.

Advantages of keeping poultry include-their small body size, low cost of production, high-quality protein, feed efficiency, not associated with taboos, useful by-products, short generation interval, and help to improve protein intake.

Problems associated with poultry keeping include feed competition with man, housing, diseases, parasites, and lack of adequate knowledge of their nutrition.

To improve poultry production we need to improve birds’ diet, sound management practices, vaccination programs e.t.c.

There are several breeds of chickens that are available and all can be exploited commercially.

Problems or Constraints of Poultry Production

Some of the problems or constraints associated with poultry production include;

Because of the competition with men, the cost of feed ingredients is high.

Housing, diseases, and parasitic problems.

The nutrient composition of available feed ingredients is not well understood.

The nutrient requirement of birds for maintenance and production is not well known.

Unavailability of adaptable egg laying and broiler birds.

Read Also: Meaning, Taxonomy, Advantages, and Disadvantages of Poultry

Guidelines to Improve Poultry Production

Farmers should provide a balance ration to improve the bird’s diet.

Farmers should follow sound management practices.

Farmers should adopt proper vaccination programs and effective disease control measures.

Farmers should renew their stock regularly.

Farmers should raise birds of an imported breed that are more productive.

In conclusion, poultry has proved to be a particularly versatile domestic bird that is adapted to almost all environments and systems of production.

Poultry production makes it an open choice for the farmer to decide which system of production he is interested in based on his capital, skills, and needs.

In a tropical environment, the design and construction of poultry houses must take into consideration the climatic and weather conditions of the environment.

The guiding principle is to keep poultry productive throughout their producing life. This involves the provision of optimum conditions of temperature, humidity, ventilation, and light.

Another important principle relates to cost and durability. The poultry house should be structurally strong, durable, and cheap.

It is very important that food troughs should not be overfilled and neither should the tube feeders be too widely opened. The construction of the food trough is also important and there exist types that reduce spillage and so reduce food wastage by up to 20 percent.

Food wastage can turn a profitable enterprise into one making a considerable loss.

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