EMMAACHILE:
Compared to broilers, you have a difference here
1. It takes longer to raise noilers and more consumption to reach some weight as broilers

2. The meat is far tastier than broilers but more bony.

3. Some of the cocks are above 3kg at 14 weeks

4. Average expected weight at 14 weeks from my observation is 2.6-3kg

5. For personal consumption, noilers are still good to raise

6. The nemesis for noilers is coccidiosis because as at today, still seeing brown poo which is disgusting. My calendar popped up this morning alerting me of anti cocci treatment. But I decided to go organic since I may want to slaughter for my freezer during the week. I may not want to wait for the 14 days withdrawal period.

EMMAACHILE:
I will post it later because I left my Nikon camera at home. I will take more pictures later when I reach home.

Turks:
Told you they're EXTREMELY susceptible to Cocci. Others than that, they're great birds.

Turks:
Told you they're EXTREMELY susceptible to Cocci. Others than that, they're great birds.

EMMAACHILE:

Yes. Studying the use of bitter leaf some far have proved effective. All the brown poos have disappeared after three days of squeezing bitter leaf in 15 litters of water per day.

kayo80:


Yes they are. But i wish male and female could be sold separately. I would just buy only the male.

IdisuleOurOwn:


There is. The wing web type, I think for birds that will stay up to 2 years.

Turks:
LOL. AMO won't do that; that'd be huge loss for them cos folks would abandon the females.

EMMAACHILE:

But I have some female chicken looking very heavy oh like cocks.

Turks:
LOL. AMO won't do that; that'd be huge loss for them cos folks would abandon the females.

EMMAACHILE:

But I have some female chicken looking very heavy oh like cocks.

EMMAACHILE:

I know there is a vaccine for fowl pox but I have not seen it in Lokoja.

I heard scent leaf cures it effectively. I also used raw Palm Oil And it cleared the skin pores under three days. My wife also put Palm oil drops in their drinking water to take care of wet fowl pox and so far looks very efficient as their slight cough stopped immediately.

kayo80:


Yea, I guess so. And I guess I have to abandon Noilers for now. I will have to go with what I have dreaded all these years... Rearing Broilers.

Turks:
LOL. Broilers are very easy to raise. Why you dreading them though?

kayo80:


I keep reading about them dying. I never have those kinds of experiences with Cockerels or Noilers. I raised 102 Noilers for the first time, and I lost just 2...and that was due to my own carelessness.

Turks:
Try your hands on them. Follow the management practice of Noilers and you won't go wrong.

kripen:
Pls house whitish watery poo is a sign of what. And if am to go about it what do I do. The birds are broilers

EMMAACHILE:
Will update the thread with pictures of weight of some cocks and female chicken tomorrow.

EMMAACHILE:
Day 95
Looking to raise Zartech Cobb 700 broiler to 9 weeks or RTO Marshall broilers to 10 weeks.
I chose them before of their weight at those ages and their resistance to heat over Arbor Acres.

Looking at end of February 2017 for stocking when the end of my noiler project will be completed.
I will be creating a thread for it.

I hope to get the weights of my noilers this week with snapshots. Stay tuned.

Winniewatch22:
Goodevening House,

Pls I want to start a poultry farm (Chicken) with as low as 30k, how do I go about. Am a newbie pls

kentochi:

thanks bro for creating this thread it motivate me to start poultry with 51 Zartech Cobb 700 broiler out of which i lost 1 bird remaining 50 birds they will complete 1 week by tomorrow Friday.

EMMAACHILE:

Budget for an average of 20 broilers to 8 weeks

Winniewatch22:


Ok. Pls are there other species apart from broilers? Can I interbreed them? what kind of feed can i give to them. Thanks

raiz01:
my noilers and cockerels ( 1 week 3 days old) no morality so far