*WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR BIRDS ARRIVE*

Good day my people, when we are planing to
Order your birds,
After preparing our premises and sit in wait for some days for our chicks to arrive, they are finally here. Now when they come, we have to do some little more exercise just as we did when we were expecting them. *Below are some activities for that day*:

1)Check for symptoms such as coughing, sneezing, watery eyes, laboured breathing, diarrhoea and pasty butt. This is very essential as it makes you know the complete health condition of your chicks.

2)Provide water before food. In doing this, you should make sure their drinkers are clean and disinfected. Check if they look tired and if they are, add glucose or vitaflash to their drinking water. This is to give them energy. To make sure they drink the water, dip their beaks in it one after another so as telling them “water is around”. When done with water, give them food.

3)Look around and make sure your environment is clean. No rats, cats and snakes

4)Implement bio security. Dedicate a clean shoe or boot to be used only inside the brooder and also limit visitors.
Set up a quarantine area where infected chicks are kept for treatment before sent back to the general brooder.

5)Keep litter clean and very dry. Do a perfect cleaning and disinfection of your brooder every 6-8 weeks and also disinfect the surrounding.

6)Your brooder should be very airy but not cold. Treat them like human beings. If you feel heat visit them and let them have fresh air as well but if you feel cold, run to them and let them feel heat. Their temperature system is same like yours.

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*CREDIT DR UMAR RABIU*