Poultry rules for your farm | Doyou have passion for poultry and really with to stay long in the business. Then obey these rules.
Rule number one (1)
Only order for birds you can conveniently to take care of.
This is the most important rules of all. Instead of stocking 500 birds and then struggle to feed them or give them medication. Buy 200 birds, feed them and give them good medication. Trust me, you will make profit than keeping 500 and struggle to feed and give them medication.if this happens you will Battle with stunted growth recurrent morbidity or disease out break and high mortality.
Rule number two (2)
Never borrow money to start poultry business unless you are an expert. of course there is no expert in poultry business in fact we learn every day. Every stock you take in Will always teach you something different however, Haven learnt from all the different characteristics displayed by each stock you get to know more and won't be excited when challenge came. You will know how to handle them with out much damage.
Rule number three (3)
Be vigilant
The little things you don't take as anything matter. If you want to succeed in poultry, you must take it as a real business. Do you know what a business man does every morning when he gets to his store? He pray,then open the store and go round to check if everything is in it's place. He take stock of what he met there and relate with his records yesterday before closing the store.
Don't just open you pen and start rushing to give your birds feed and water and rush out again. Check around watch how they behave, when you came in. Check what fell and what is longer in it's place.
Rule number four (4)
Never ignore warning signals. Yes I call warning signals
- Bad smell
- Withdrawal from feed
- Moodless
- Withdrawal from water
Rule number five (5)
Never change feed indeseriminately!
I know you do this yes you. When farmers talk about changing feed from this to this and that then this all in the name getting better results, I am always scared for them. Whether you are changing from bad feed to a good one you must be very careful. Do you know every change in feed affect your birds negatively first before gradually bringing in the results you don't desire? Most of the time, you may suffer with drawal, coccidiosis,feed wastage, stress and more. Imagine changing from mash to pellets indeseriminately. Do you know that what that means? Have you studied the difference between mash and pelleted feed and the process of digestion?
They may contains the same ingredients but the formulation process varies so it's the digestion process.
NOTE: I don't mean changing from starter to Grower or finisher but changing from one commercial feed to another e.g changing from silverland feed to falcon feeds. These are two different brand and can be different formula used in make these two feed
Even whenever you need to change from starter to Grower follow the rules 75% starter and 25% Grower, then 50% Grower and 50% starter and finally 75% Grower and 25% starter. At the end you change 100% to Grower feed,you can follow the same rules whenever you needs to change from One phase feed to another. This one works for feed of the same brand too.
Each campany use their own unique ingredients to make their feeds although they may give the same nutritional content before using any feed for your birds find out first about the feed and make sure you stick with it.
Rule number six (6)
Never let your birds rundry of water. Have you heard of heat stress? If it has happened to your birds then you will understand what I am saying. Heat stress can wipe your entire flock. And it may leave you're birds vulnerable to all kinds of infection as their immune system get weakened and may take more than 14 days to fully recover. Your birds can survive 48 hours with out feed but they can't survive 7 hours without water. Instead of running out of water please run out of feed.
Rule number seven (7)
If your can't drink that water don't give it to your birds
Some farmers takes chicken as they are just animals and nothing matters.may be they have forgotten they are dealing with delicate live animals.
Water born disease are some of the deadlist disease and most difficult to control. Imagine a Tony drop of harmful substance inside the drinking water it will contaminates the whole water. If was feed it may not be that bad.
Please if you can't drink that water don't give it to your birds, I am not talking about medicated water.
