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hi Tony I really need your help.am about starting a poultry mainly targeting. Christmas.i don't know how to go about it.pls help me out

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Five Steps for New Fish Breeders.
1. Choose a fish.Decide which fish you’d like to breed and research its breeding habits. Choose a species that’s for your level. Some good species for beginning breeders are easy-to-care-for livebearers, such as guppies, platies and swordtails.
2. Set up a breeding tank.Get an appropriate size of breeder tank (this will depend on your species and the information found during research), a sponge filter and water from the parents’ tank.
3. Condition the parent fish.Choose healthy fish to breed, feed them a lot of live foods, keep their water clean and do any other species-specific steps found during research.
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Swordtail illustration by Tom Kimball.4. Breed and grow out the fry.Some species breed at early morning light, others need to be separated for a day or two with a tank divider, some need large water changes or an increase in water temperature. For easy livebearers, you should be able to just sit back and watch. Once baby fish are in the tank, feed the fry foods small enough for them to eat. Some breeders culture infusoria or buy commercially made baby fish foods. After a while, move the fry to a larger tank so they can grow out without getting any diseases or having stunted growth from an overcrowded tank.
5. Find homes for the fry.Some stores take donations of fry, but often are overrun with easy livebearing species, so make sure to find homes for the baby fish before trying a breeding project. If stores won’t take the fry, give them to friends or auction them at a local fish club. Some hobbyists also let other fish in the community tank eat them.
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I am about to venture into poultry farming with my best friend. We intend stocking 1000 layers. Presently we are constructing our coop. I intend to reach out to poultry farmers and other enthusiasts with this thread. i will be teaching it as we go along. Comments and criticisms are welcome.or at my page www.facebook.com/developagriculture

HOW RAISE BROILER BIRDS!!!! Raising broiler chickens can put meat on your table quicker and with less effort than raising any other livestock. In just a handful of weeks, your chicks will reach target weight and your larder can be stocked with meat that's tastier and better for you than anything you could buy at the grocery store. Plus, raising meat chickens lets you opt out of the profoundly inhumane industrial food-productionsystem. The choice between hybrid or heritage breeds, confinement or free range, and conventional or organic feed are entirely up to you.
Best Broiler Breeds
Growing broilers — young chickens with pliable skin and tender meat — involves making several choices. Your first decision is whether to raise hybrid or heritage poultry breeds. The fundamental differences are the amount of time they need to grow and the flavor of the meat. The quicker your birds reach the target weight of about 6 pounds, the cheaper they are to raise overall and the more delicate the meat. The longer they take, the more they'll cost you (as is the case with heritage breeds), but the meat will be healthier and more flavorful.
White hybrids.The most efficient hybrid broiler chickens are an industrial creation developed by combining White Cornish and White Plymouth Rock genetics. The resulting hybrids — the type most commonly sold at the supermarket — grow and feather rapidly. Chicks of the same age and sex grow at the same rate and efficiently convert feed into meat, reaching target weight in just six to seven weeks. Their edible portion (excluding excess fat, intestines, feathers, heads, feet and blood) is approximately 75 percent of live weight.
Under careful management these broad-breasted hybrid broiler chickens will consume approximately 2 pounds of feed for every pound of weight gained. Unless they're raised on range, hybrid chickens must be butchered as soon as they reach target weight, or they will develop bone ailments or die of heart failure as a result of their excessively rapid growth.
White Cornish hybrids have fewer feathers to pluck and no underlying hair-like feather to singe off, making them easier and faster to clean than other broiler chickens. I like roasting them with the skin intact. When I raise other broiler breeds, I skin them because it's faster than plucking the feathers off. However, you can choose to pluck your birds regardless of breed.
Colored hybrids.These broilers were developed for France’s famousLabel Rougeorganic free-range chickens and adopted by some producers in the United States. Trade names include Black Broiler, Color Yield, Colored Range, Freedom Ranger, Kosher King, Redbro, Red Broiler, Red Meat Maker, Rosambro and Silver Cross. Most strains have red plumage, but they also come in black, gray or barred — anything but white. Their colored feathers make them less visible to predators, especially hawks, but difficult to pluck cleanly so that the bare skin appears neat. (See Wrong About Freedom Rangersto learn more about colored hybrids.)
Colored hybrid broiler chickens are usually raised on pasture and grow more slowly than white hybrids — they take at least 11 weeks to reach target weight, and the chicks don’t necessarily grow at a uniform rate. They eat about 3 pounds of feed per pound of weight gained because of their longer growth period and the calories they burn while foraging. Some people find the meat of colored hybrids to be more flavorful than that of faster-growing white hybrids. The edible meat is approximately 70 percent of live weight.
Heritage poultry breeds.If you keep heritage chickens for eggs, you have the option of hatching eggs from your own flock, keeping the pullets as future layers and raising the surplus cockerels for meat. Delaware, New Hampshire, Plymouth Rock and Wyandotte are heritage poultry breeds with great potential as dual-purpose egg and meat chickens.
All of these breeds are good foragers and have a moderate to slow growth rate, reaching target weight in about 16 weeks. Compared with Cornish hybrids, they have thinner breasts and more dark meat. FOR more visit www.facebook.com/developagriculture

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