Definitely we cannot underestimate the power of advertisement, and how the sponsorship of BBN has positively brought Payporte to the notice of a wider population.

Below is Alexa rating of Payporte site as at Jan 22 when the show started and today Apr 15. Over 1000 steps up.

DteesKennel:
anybdy?

Have you abandoned the Whatsapp group? Many requests are waiting for your attention.

Nice job bro. How would you rate IMMUCOX from your experience? Have you used any other coccidiostat on your pullets?

tnx @ whizboi

Kindly educate me more...

What is the difference between transmission service and engine service?

I stay in Abj. pls where can I get Motorcraft Fluid/Oil and how much does it cost?

Kindly educate me more...

What is the difference between transmission service and engine service?

I stay in Abj. pls where can I get Motorcraft Fluid/Oil and how much does it cost?

Good Job Bro! MORE Motorcraft fluid to your ELBOW.

Pls I am expecting my first Vehicle from Ford by weekend from Coutonu. A 2001 Ford Explorer Sport Trac for my farm use.

Kindly advise on the first basic things I have to do to ensure a good start with my new Ride.

God Bless.

Good Job Bro! MORE Motorcraft fluid to your ELBOW.

Pls I am expecting my first Vehicle from Ford by weekend from Coutonu. A 2001 Ford Explorer Sport Trac for my farm use.

Kindly advise on the first basic things I have to do to ensure a good start with my new Ride.

God Bless.

Jamp tnx bro the girls are doing great. they were given fowlpox last thursday, looking forward to Komorov by fri/sat this week.

@fnk sorry for your loss bro. May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace. Amen.

@davidzfarm tnx 4 the update on antibiotics withdrawal period b4 vaccination. hope the forum was worth the time spent?

@jamp na wa for these predators o. same experience on my farm, though they are yet to graduate to the level of eating life birds but my feed pan is their foodbasket once the light is off. I suggest you get some right poison.

Thanx to all for your responses both online and through phone calls.

Attention Farmers in Abuja and environs. I got this from my Vet Dr.

Urgent Advice Needed:

My young Pullets are due for MAREK'S Vaccination on Friday (Day22) based on my vaccination schedule,

1. But I would like to know 'how late is too late' to administer Marek's Vaccine in pullets.?

2.Since it is believed that hatcheries have already done the vaccination at day old, must it be repeated in farm?

Thanx as u respond.

grownaira:


Haha. No regular broiler farmer will keep birds for four months. A four month old broiler that is well fed will weigh nothing less than 6Kg (dressed weight).

May be I should try that adventure soon...

Tnx @jamp my birds are doing great. They have taken 2shots of Gumboro Vacc and 1lasota Vacc.

@Eggxel you are welcome and @davidzfarm tnx 4 ur response to his request, hw are your birds doing? I believe you have fully disposed the 'naughty ones'.

@grownaira are you serious about that broiler feeding for 4months? Who in this biz keeps broilers for 4MONTHS? Pls what is the expected Weight at that age? Just Curious though....

@jamp. congrat on the arrival of ur new batch, wish you all the best. May God see us all through.

@icemania in addition to reading the entire thread. I will also suggest u do a mock investment in your backyard and raise few birds to maturity. that way you can get small experience. All the best.

eggxel:

@AkayTopsy, did u buy directly from the company or through a 'middle man'? Im based in the FCT, if i have to order from the southwest where most hatcheries are, whats d payment modality? Can i pay at delivery? I would appreciate it if u can share your supplier's contact details. Thanks.

I buy directly from the hatchery. zartech no is 08055990399. Call the guy and ask him to send u their account no after getting the price and available date it is as simple as date.

Mind you tpt of the birds is on you but you can plead with him to help you give the birds to the regular drivers that bring birds to fct. communicate with the driver whom you will pay the tpt cost on delivery as to where you will pick ur birds. SHIKENA

@just4Just 130. Booked like 4weeks ago.

@eggcellent tnx 4 ur titbit, but post isnt dat late now, what other advice would you hv given if I'd informed the house earlier?

Good morning all. I just pick a new batch of 1000doc black pullets from zartech looking forward to a 72weks journey. Pls any advice on how to kickstart them on a good note is welcome.

@jamp how far with your pullets from chi?

Ziggyzito:
D'banj just won the evolutionary award.....he dedicated it to himself and Don jazzy!!!!!

Nice

davidzfarm18:
had to let my girls go yesterday. A very painful decision indeed. I pray that God will rebuke the devourer from all the farms here.

We should start instituting legal action against these Hatcheries for shunning out diseased and low quality birds.

Well done bro, having the courage to make a hard decision is a biz quality. We all need to know when to 'hold on' and when to 'let go'

All the best as you reinvest your proceeds from sales.

fnk:


So which feed do you use do you compound it yourself? what formula do you use?

I use the Koudjis Concentrate to mill my feed. Below is the the formular as given by the company.

I copied this from the original post by Kelvin96 on page130

kelvin96:As regard how to mix the KBC 10, Starter 0 - 17 days; kbc10 125 kg, maize 600 kg, soya meal 275 kg.Grower 17 - 37 days; kbc10 100 kg, maize 650 kg, soya meal 250 kgFinisher after 37 days; kbc10 80 kg, maize 695 kg, soya meal 225 kg.There is another one called kbc30 Starter Maize: 650kbc30: 350Finisher: 650Kbc30: 300Wheat Offal: 50And for Galdus , it is a prestarter feed directly from holland, made by koudijs.It helps the birds builds their digestive trait.You can read more about it herehttp://www.koudijs.deheus.com/feed-solutions/poultry/day-old-chicks@grownaira, the 2kg i talked about is live weight.

endy247:
i gave them ivermectin wen i first noticed it last wk bt it's still there, maybe i'll try it again, i'm getting tired of dis birds sef.

@endy247 how r ur birds doing? any update on the LICE? have u been able to erradicate it completely from ur pen?

fnk:
Has anyone tried to decode the formula that top feed uses for their broiler feed. They are dang good. I want to set up my own mill so that I can mill for my farm, it has to be a top feed quality or better, if not I will counting buy from top feed. Please help.

If you are really planning to mill, I would suggest you try Koudjis Concentrates. My broilers batches have been on Koudjis for almost a year and Yes! Zartech birds. And the result has been wonderful. That is not to say we never had challenges, but that would only be due to other factors not the feed.

Most of my broiler batches are out 6wks (+/- 3days), meaning sometimes I dispose them even b4 6weeks.

If you check the earlier posts sometimes this year we spoke about it and someone even posted the combination formular.

fnk:

We weigh them individually, and we weigh a whole bunch, and you can see from the ones you weighed that most of the other birds looks like the same size.
of course, some are about 900g some 800g and some 1.1kg etc.

In the past, at 4 weeks, most of them weighs 700g, some 600g

Ok tnx bro.

fnk:

Just their retail 25kg starter mash. It will be good to know their fomula. At 4 weeks now, I am recording 1kg. Not bad.

how do you weigh your birds? individually or in batches? and like how many birds do you have to weigh to give u the average weight for the entire set of birds?

jamp:



bros the birds are coming this month end. we are preparing for their arrival. how are ur birds doing? ur friend didn't show up again.

my first batch will be 2yrs by August and they are doing 60%(to God be the glory). they dropped from 70-60 after we changed to animal care. they are the ones feeding our 2nd & 3rd batches. we planned to push them to December before selling them.

wow! bro it seems like yday when you brought those birds, but to the glory of God here we are... This biz is truely a game of time all we need is to invest wisely and by God's Grace as the sun rise and set the fruit of our labour shall be reaped. Wish U better success on the next batches. hopefuly my new batch from Zartech will be coming In 2wks time as well.

kuzee:
lol
it was really a hard case to crack
the dog make sense though
what is his temperament?

Very cool headed. Though deceptively Docile, but he is very vicious in combat. Never lost a fight against my Caucasian (which is almost 2years older).

CodeineJunkiee:

It's a Neopolitan Mastiff

deleskizy:
This is definitely a boerboel brindle. I stand to be corrected

CodeineJunkiee:

It's a Neopolitan Mastiff

Drajah:

i think its a cane corso AKA Italian mastiff

Nice Try... Well this is the Gently Giant I got Crossing my Brindled Female Boerboel with a Neapolitan Mastiff.