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Diarrhea causes Diarrhea is caused by several ways for example infections from bacteria, viruses and protozoan. Additionally worms as well cause diarrhea through damaging intestines thus resulting into poor absorption of nutrients. Furthermore, organ damage such as kidney and liver also cause diarrhea. Lastly heat stress as well as ingestion of toxins materials also cause […]

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Natural treatment for diarrhea in chickens

Powder benefits It increases body weight in broilers thus attracting higher market value. The powder also decreases the feed conversion efficiency hence efficient feed conversion. improve intestinal permeability by helping in the absorption of the digested nutrients. Additional benefits The pineapple powder also acts as an immunomodulator which limits the effects of harmful bacteria. Additionally, […]

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Boosting broiler weight gain using pineapple leaf powder

Each plant requires both macro and micronutrients for its growth while microbes help plants uptake nutrients from the soil. A good fertilizer should have Nitrogen, potassium, phosphorous, natural carbon, and other micronutrients and this can be used by all other plants. Organic fertilizer benefits Organic fertilizers increase the beneficial microbes in the soil that help […]

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Organic fertilizer for plants

To make compost tea, you need a 20-liter bucket, an air pump, compost, fish fertilizer, seaweed, and molasses. The first step is to ensure that the water you use is free of chlorine. This could be done either by exposing the water to air for some time or bubbling air through the water using a […]

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How to make compost tea organic fertilizer for your Plants

To make fermented organic fertilizer, you will need manure, husks, soil, charcoal, bran, rock dust/ ash, molasses, yeast, and untreated water i.e. water without chlorine because chlorine kills microorganisms yet they are needed in making the fermented microbial fertilizer. Preparation process To make fermented organic fertilizer, the yeast, water, and molasses are combined and mixed. […]

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How to make fermented organic fertilizer

Biofertilizers limit yield loss by using nutrition i.e. providing plants with the required nutrients for use by the plants to grow and give a good yield. These limit physiological stresses on the plants and also limit the pest and disease pressures. Making biofertilizers To make biofertilizers, you will need manure, molasses, water, and hay. The […]

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How to make a super full spectrum Biofertilizer

To make compost from kitchen waste, you need need to have a composting bin in which the compost will be made, kitchen waste that will be used to make compost, old compost, and soil that will be used as an inoculum. Composting process Put the kitchen waste into a composting bin layer after layer. And […]

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Making of compost from kitchen waste

Pepper benefits Pepper improves digestion, feed intake, and boosts feed conversion efficiency in broiler birds. Additionally, it also boosts body weight, reduces stress, improves carcass and broiler meat quality. Furthermore, pepper powder also acts as a preservative in broiler meat thus increasing meat availability on markets. Preparation process To prepare pepper powder start by obtaining […]

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Pepper powder organic weight supporter in broiler farming

Vinegar preparation To prepare the vinegar solution to be used always start by purchasing vinegar solution, this should be containing 5% concentration. Thereafter add 100 MLS of water to dilute the 5% vinegar concentration to get 2.5 vinegar concentration since concentrated vinegar may damage the eggs to be hatched thereby affecting the chances of successfully […]

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Using vinegar to increase chances of egg hatching