Judithume:
Pls how important is mareks vaccine? My birds are ,300 n the vaccine is expensive 4000advice me what to do

Judithume:
Pls how important is mareks vaccine? My birds are ,300 n the vaccine is expensive 4000advice me what to do

curiousme:
@aAk1 MESUREMENT for DOC is DIFFERENT Now, like i said b4 use (2025 sqcm) for ADULT BIRD WHile U use (225 sqcm) for DOC i.e for a space of 30ft by 60ft, d room/pen will house 1000*2000/225 sqcm =8888.8888 DOC Birds for just MaX of 3 weeks.
Mind u Broilar has a different CALCULATION. both calculation is for pullet & corkrel. hope u understand.

Trueigbo:
hello house, am constructing a new pen that will house 2 rows of battery cages. what is the size of the pen. am thinking of 25ft by 50ft.
please i need advice

davidzfarm18:

The fact is ; if your pen is new and you've not reared laying birds on it before, you may skip it because most hatcheries would had given Marek's.
however, I will advice you not to look at the cost but give the vaccine.
Marek's affects the birds at point of lay and could be devastating.

aAK1:
I was just about to ask this question. I know most hatcheries do mareks vaccine and I've also witness it fail. What I want to know is, can it be overdosed?

tabontabon:
25 x 50ft would accomodate about 6(120birds) cages per row, making 12 units in all. But you can make the width about 28/30ft to create ample space on all sides.

FarmTech:

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Broiler farmers in the house, is this realistic?

doctormalik:
370 per kg. I can pick minimum of 1000. I can buy from Ibadan very well.

yemmit90:


A CAPITAL yes for a farmer with 1000 birds above.

Let me break it down for you guys thinking the guy is a thief. Though he should have make it 390/400 to attracts more supplies.

Except between August and October, DOC is usually below #150 or even below #100. Our present stock is #90/bird.

A birds is expected to take between 3.5kg/4.0kg of feed between day 1 to 6weeks/seven weeks. And the expected body weight during this period should be around 1.8kg/2kg depending on your feeding patterns. And let assume you didn't made your feed(quite less expensive) but you bought it ready made(top feed). A 25kg of broiler starter worth #2700 and finisher mash 2600. But they're doing promo now, you can get it 2600 and 2500 naira respectively.

DOC #150/bird

Feed #416/4kg

Others # 50

Total #616

with the guy prize 1.9kg worth #703- 616= #87/bird.

With the above calculation, the profit is #87/bird( not much) but you can minimize you cost by making use of concentrate and maize(especially finisher mash). You also make more profit if the prize of DOC is below the amount mentioned above.

Globaby01:
my broiler turns 6 weeks today, many looks sick, two died this morning making it 10 mortality since the day it was bought, reason: i cant explain. i also noticed that they are not feeding as they used to, i started noticing it yesterday where i gave them the quota that i used to give them. when i came back from work, i saw they couldn't finish it. i don't know if they noticed the finisher inside their grower mash because i mixed some quantity as i will soon change to finisher. but that is how i changed from starter to grower. so what is happening. can someone who has same experience share on what i can do to save the remaining 41 broilers to Easter sales.

Judithume:
OK thanks for the advice. I will give them the Marek's in 2 days time. But is typhoid vaccine also important

Globaby01:
my broiler turns 6 weeks today, many looks sick, two died this morning making it 10 mortality since the day it was bought, reason: i cant explain. i also noticed that they are not feeding as they used to, i started noticing it yesterday where i gave them the quota that i used to give them. when i came back from work, i saw they couldn't finish it. i don't know if they noticed the finisher inside their grower mash because i mixed some quantity as i will soon change to finisher. but that is how i changed from starter to grower. so what is happening. can someone who has same experience share on what i can do to save the remaining 41 broilers to Easter sales.

yemmit90:


You should make it 390/400 like others.

Eggcelent:
Perpetual459. How many POL birds are you looking at?

doctormalik:
ok good. Let me know whenever you are ready.

Eggcelent:
Perpetual459. Prepare for 9 bags of feeds. That should take them for 5 weeks at 65g/bird/day. The cage to house 100 birds shouldn't be more than 65k. You may need to do a couple of vaccination. Success.

yemmit90:


A CAPITAL yes for a farmer with 1000 birds above.

Let me break it down for you guys thinking the guy is a thief. Though he should have make it 390/400 to attracts more supplies.

Except between August and October, DOC is usually below #150 or even below #100. Our present stock is #90/bird.

A birds is expected to take between 3.5kg/4.0kg of feed between day 1 to 6weeks/seven weeks. And the expected body weight during this period should be around 1.8kg/2kg depending on your feeding patterns. And let assume you didn't made your feed(quite less expensive) but you bought it ready made(top feed). A 25kg of broiler starter worth #2700 and finisher mash 2600. But they're doing promo now, you can get it 2600 and 2500 naira respectively.

DOC #150/bird

Feed #416/4kg

Others # 50

Total #616

with the guy prize 1.9kg worth #703- 616= #87/bird.

With the above calculation, the profit is #87/bird( not much) but you can minimize you cost by making use of concentrate and maize(especially finisher mash). You also make more profit if the prize of DOC is below the amount mentioned above.

Ur calculation is not entirely right.
live weight of the birds are put at the figures above, dress weight is normally .5 to
.4 less depending on the breed.
however, I am aware of the prize regime in the west.The weather, cost of DOC and Feed is favourable in that axis