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    What to feed pigs for faster growth
    Pigs are fast growing animals and give maximum returns to farmers in a shorter period of time when provided with a balanced feed ration. Additionally pigs feed on a wide variety of feeds for proper growth and development. It is therefore important to feed them on balanced rations rich in energy, mineral and vitamins. Also […]
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    How to best safeguard your poultry farm against diseases
    Poultry farming is associated with both infectious and non infectious diseases, these can be safeguarded by ensuring proper management practices. Additionally these diseases can be prevented by following the principals of health management like disease prevention, early disease recognition and early treatment. It is also advisable to regularly observe chicks and during brooding and use […]
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    How to become successful in piggery business
    Piggery is a lucrative business venture, however starting a piggery farm is not so easy, but through proper training, funding one can start and run a successful pig farm. Additionally pigs are preferred animals since pork is highly demanded, pigs multiply faster, highly adaptable, easy to farm and give faster high yields. However some farmers […]
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    How to protect your chicken from newcastle disease
    Newcastle is a viral disease, highly contagious and can kill the entire flock in a short time, however the disease can be prevented through following proper prevention measures. Additionally birds attacked by Newcastle show different signs such as sneezing and running nose, coughing, breathing difficulty, eye, neck and head swellings, greenish watery manure. Low feed […]
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    How to avoid or minimize mistakes in poultry farming
    Poultry farming is a risky but highly profitable business venture, through proper managerial practices the associated risks can be easily minimized. Additionally it is advisable to start with a small number of birds to gain experience. Poultry farming systems are intensive and free range. Under intensive birds are confined indoors while under free range birds […]
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    How to cut chicken feed costs by 50%
    Feeding birds contributes to 70% of the total production costs this can be reduced by simply fermenting chicken feeds for 3 days. Fermented feeds are beneficial for all livestock as animals as they obtain all accessible nutrients from fermented feeds. Fermenting chicken feeds helps in digestion by creating probiotics. Additionally feeding animals on fermented feeds […]
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    BUDGETING ON HOW TO START A POULTRY FARM AND BUSINESS
    Assessing change in poultry systems require a different approach to assessing productivity and production in a system. In economics, this means looking at the marginal impacts not overall system. Important factors that can change in poultry systems include; food prices, labour prices, technology and animal health status. To assess change, we first need to estimate […]
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    The right age to debeak your birds
    Timing is a very important factor in making operations on a farm. Debeaking is one of the operations that need to be done on a poultry farm especially in layers‘ farm. It is done to prevent cannibalism, because the birds can use the beaks to injure each other, to prevent egg eating, because when birds […]
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    Basic biosecurity rules to prevent disease on your poultry farm
    On a poultry farm biosecurity is very important in prevention or management of disease. To be a successful poultry farmer, there are 3 things that you have to pay attention to and these include effective bio security, keeping an up to date vaccination schedule and quality nutrition. Biosecurity consists of all that you do on […]
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    How to separate good laying chicken from bad laying chicken
    To be in a layers‘ business, you must be having productive layers because if the eggs are not there then you are not in business. The productivity of a layers‘ farm is measured by the quantity of eggs produced hence without good layers, you wont have a profitable layers‘ farm. This makes it important to […]
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