adigunbizz:
Hello Zopak

Thanks for the good work.

Can vaccination of birds be carried out personally, or must it be done by a vet?

zopakks:



Vaccination Activity Personally or By A vet Doctor?
Yes and No
Yes because It all depends on your vaccination experience as a poultry farmer.
In most cases if you have been activity involved in carrying out vaccination activities over time, you would have a better understanding of the right dosage as well as right method of application of the vaccination process either by spraying, oral/ocular , subcutaneously or intramuscularly etc.
If you do have this vaccination experience cum knowledge, then definitely you don’t really need the services of a Doctor to carry out vaccination
However, if you don’t have any detailed knowledge of these, then NO!.... you have no choice than to engage the services of an experienced poultry veterinary doctor .

Deolaw:
Hello Op. I made this little pen for rearing chickens. My plan is to have 40 chickens in it and wanna target DEC for sale. I am a novice in intensive poultry or so. Can you advice me on...
1. what kind of treatment do I need to add to the pen to start off.
2. I wish to have broilers. Are there any special breed for my purpose and timing
3. How long will I need to have to add heat (from a stove or bulb) for a day old chicks.
4. Just help my novice head


Thanks

farmgate:



I don't think your pen can contain 40 broilers when they mature. You need to provide for heat stove,bulb,charcoal for atleast 2 weeks to 3 when they would have grow enough feather.
On arrival you have to give them glucose and vitamin in their water on day 1..
Day 2 ..antibiotics and vitamin in their drinking water till day 5 or 6
Day. 7 time for vaccination. First dose. Gumboro with milk dry milk
Continue with vitamin after vaccination on day 8
also with antibiotics before another vaccination on day 14 Lasota first dose also with milk

Day 15 give vitamin and give tylo doc extra on day 16 till 18 prevention of respiration disease

Second dose Gumboro should be day 22 and Lasota second dose day 27

May be another person can add one or more thing
N:B. You should be careful when administer vaccine and it shouldn't last more than 40 to 50minute. Good luck

Mustack:
As a beginner how much can someone start with layers?

bihok:
Nice threads, please I am having one problem about where to get a very good day old chicks around ibadan and abeokuta because most hatchery have a lot of problems nowadays. Pls

Mustack:

Alright.
Can I start up with 1000 birds?

zopakks:

do you have the financial capacity to start?
Any arrangements on ground with respect to the pen that you wanna use to stock up to #1000 birds

Juliana7:
@zopaks, pls what is d right space requirement for broiler and also layers in square feet

aralgreen:
hi @zopak is there any drug one can give layers to prevent their droppings from smelling

unclec2015:
what is the price of broiler parent stock DOC and Layer parent stock DOC?

Also what farm will I buy this from?


I want to go into Hatchery.

oroke22:
After spending about #160,000 for bring up 200 broilers, how much can one except in return?

Raising 100-150 broilers
I will assume that you already have your pen ready for stocking the said amount of birds that you intend raising so I may not want to include pen construction cost, I will also want to assume that you have already purchased other basic equipment which include your Feeding and drinking equipment which make up your fixed cost, but from my rough estimate of 200 birds which includes variable cost of feed, purchase of D.O.C, medication, vaccination, labor cost as well as miscellaneous expenses it is expected that you should be ready to spend nothing less than #160,000 to raise 200 commercial broiler birds to a mean average weight of 1.8kg. This is probably equitable to an estimate cost of #800 per bird.

As per your second question, from experience i will Advise you go for Abor Acre breed of broilers. They have a good FCR and this will enable you easily attain the desired weight at the right time putting all proper management practices into place. Make sure that they have a good uniformity when collecting them from the Hatchery.You can as well weigh them once they arrive your farm to study their growth rate.
I know you can get Abor Acre from CHI (Ajanla) farms or basically find out from other experienced broiler farmers in your environs.

zopakks:


If i understand your question properly, in starting up, you can work according to your budget, I would advise that you Start small, probably with fewer birds after which you can scale up based on your initial experience of raising your first few initial set of birds. In poultry , experience is very important so as to reduce losses and learn from mistakes of the past.

polynomial:
pls m having upto 80turkey nw @15k per each. Do u knw any farm or frozen fud company that can buy all of it @ a tym.

Juliana7:
@zopak, pls sir is it true dat abor acre is d best amongst broiler breed/strain in terms of feed conversion ratio