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Really? But we earlier read it was going to be 32k. Some of them may choose not to participate in the April 11 elections.

fishleg123. The oldest pullets I've given anti-cocci to were 16 weeks at the time. So, I wouldn't say I have had first hand experience of what you are presently facing. However, given the alternatives available, I'll advice you apply some mild anti-cocci such as coccifor and embazin forte. Please, be very careful not to exceed the dosage/number of usage. Success.

fishleg. I guess they are the floor. Right?

op. What is okuko igbo? Meanwhile, are you 100% certain all females pretend & no male does? If not, then you may consider adjusting the topic.

Are there no Nairalanders from North West & North East on this thread? We need samples of results from there to have clearer idea of where this election is going.

APC leading in most units counted here in Owo, Ondo State. There is growing fear that PDP thugs may opt for ballot-snatching to invalidate the results.

Voting has commenced in most parts of Owo, Ondo State. No negative incidence so far except for minor hitches with the Card Readers.

ufumes. Was the Card Reader not used to verify the authenticity of the PVCs being presented? I hope you understand what I mean. If that isn't done, then the votes there may not count.

Accreditation of voters have started in most parts of Owo, Ondo State. Everything going on smoothly at the moment

Contributors, please, keep to the dictates of the thread. Don't derail it. No campaigns, no insults, just post confirmed happenings in your area. Thanks

Farmers in the house, I'll appreciate your input on the below.
A brother of mine is proposing to go into distributorship of poultry feeds. In the town he resides at the moment, Top Feeds, Amo Bygn & Animal Care Feeds all have their distributors. He is therefore, left with a decision on which of the rest to go for.
What I therefore need your inputs on is to kindly rate the underlisted brands from the best to the top with reasons, please:
1. Feed Masters,
2. Vital Feeds,
3. Livestock Feeds,
4. Feedtech,
5. Jakana Ag Feeds,
6. Supreme Feeds,
7. Rainbow Feeds; and
8. Hybrid Feeds.
Awaiting your helpful comments, please.

Tomorrow morning, (Saturday, March 28) the sun will rise from its 94 million-mile abode on Nigerians as they choose a path; and it will later set in the evening as they chart a course. Tomorrow, we will find out if sitting President Goodluck Jonathan will be the ambassador of choice leading us beyond these trying times, or he will be regarded as just another flaky, flicker and flutter in history, and one who deserves nothing but a cold bye-bye from Aso Rock. Tomorrow will not be another ordinary day in this country; it will be an extraordinary dawn.

Politicians have hounded us for support and votes. Lies were told, arms twisted, money spent, mean utterances made, people killed, blood spilled and tension is now at an all-time high. Truly, this election will not be about Goodluck Jonathan who four years ago promised us we would all soon be cat-walking in Eldorado where there is no pain and sorrow. It will not also be about his arch-challenger, Muhammadu Buhari, of the All Progressives Congress who is promising us that heaven will collide with the earth at a cloying intersection and we will all be happy- forever-after if he becomes president. This election will be about Nigerians who were created by God and placed in a land filled with plenteous precious stones. It will be about a people who have sought for help since Independence from their leaders but have been besieged by bleeders and dealers who think they are leaders. This election will be about over 80 per cent of Nigerians who are living but “dead” as a result of pervasive, rampaging poverty that many have accepted as normal in our abnormal clime.

Nigeria is rated the sixth largest producer of petroleum in the world, the eighth largest exporter, the 10th largest in proven reserves, and one of the highest economic growth rates of about 7.4 per cent. Between 2009 and 2011, a total of N22.165tr ($143.5bn) was earned as revenue from the oil and gas sector alone. In the first seven months of 2013, Nigeria recorded earnings over $20bn from sale of crude oil. the National Bureau of Statistics told us that, “On annual basis, the total exports of Nigeria stood at N17.204 trillion at the end of 2014, representing a rise of N2.959bn or 20.8 per cent over the level of 2013”. We are a blessed people!

But what do we have to show for it? Almost 100 million people (61 per cent) still live on less than $1 a day, and 92 per cent on less than two dollars a day. Nigeria’s debt was $4.53 billion six months after this President took over leadership, but today the country’s debt stands at $66.99 billion and is rising. The inflation rate in Nigeria was recorded at 8.3 per cent in July of 2014, and Nigeria Import-Export ratio stands at 97:3 in favour of imports. There are more statistics of stagnation and backwardness to which answers have not come.

A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, said this recently in a treatise about my President: “…His greatest challenge is how to save himself from the stranglehold of his largely provincial palace jesters who tell him he has done better than God…”

Mr. President seems to be held hostage by an agglutination of mean businessmen and ghoulish politicians who have successfully woven and caricatured him into an elephantine cash-cow and money-spewing machine. Many of them are audaciously bold duplicitous characters who spin through the crevices of government after government. They are wheelers, dealers and egregious Erebus in the piazza of power and they have turned Aso Rock into an odoriferous and bizarre bazaar-plaza where bonanzas in different currencies are shovelled out in bails and bundles. No thanks to them, Nigeria is now in a hot-bath of economic kamikaze; all things are falling apart. Those are the people that Soludo was talking about. If Goodluck goes down losing this election, it will be partly because of these sycophantic characters.

For Buhari, this election is far from settled in his favour. His opponent remains an incumbent president who is presiding over a GDP of about $500bn, active duty personnel in three armed services, totalling approximately 200,000 troops and 300,000 paramilitary personnel. He still has a lot of love because of what his backers call incomparable achievements, mainly in agriculture. Twenty nine state governments have accessed N33bn under the Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme, and about 165,000 jobs were said to have been created. Those quiet lovers of Jonathan are also those who love his Growth Enhancement Scheme which provided financing for 299 projects in agro-dealership totalling about N230bn. This President has done well in the agricultural sector, and you can’t throw that out of your window of partisanship.

But words spoken behind closed doors in many homes and businesses are that we can do better than these two people running. How can Nigeria at this stage of our evolvement be forced to settle for a weak Jonathan who has no cue or clue, or a stiff and ageing Buhari who has no charm or pizzazz to lead us into a glorious and glowing future? Is this land not filled with a plethora of young, skilful men and women of integrity and character who can hold their own on the world stage and command blessings to come for a nation that seems accursed? Is there no balm in Gilead that we have to settle for one of these? Who among them has the Midas’ touch to truly transform and change the climate? Some think none.

Maybe, they are right that Buhari is not particularly a thriller candidate. If we are voting charisma, charm and pizzazz, it will not be Buhari. If we are voting soothing, mesmerising speech machinist, it will not be this General. But what is missing in charisma he has gained in character. The world knows him to be a modest man who goes not after filthy lucre; a knowledgeable man who understands the military terrain in these days of insecurity, and a man on whose contact list you will not find gluttony, graft, or maddening amassing of wealth. He has a history of ruthless military dictatorship; but he wants us to believe that has been retired when he was forcefully retired from the Army.

When desire comes in a head-on collision with guts, you have a cohesive, unstoppable rainbow coalition. When Buhari met with Bola Tinubu, the lyrics of the song that Nigerians now sing came to the political labour room and a new master release is about to be born. Some Nigerians loathe Tinubu, but he is a discoverer of talents and a potter who moulds men of skills. Tinubu is a man on assignment, and wise men respect men behind special assignments. He is a ravishing master-strategist like none other. Men on assignment must be strategic. Tinubu went into the rubble of Daura and cleaned up the garments of a man who was once called an election serial-loser. He built a bullish team coated with savvy-salvaging spices around him, and marketed him to the same clientele that had rejected a product three times. Now, the serial loser is a serious contender for Nigeria’s presidency; and the serial loser may win tomorrow.

You cannot ignore the mathematics in this election. All of the Northern parts of Nigeria have about 32 million Permanent Voter Cards. The South-West has about 9.2 million PVCs. These two blocks are rooting for Buhari. The President’s region is the South-South that has 8.5 million; and the South-East 6.6 million. These are rooting for the President. In Nigerian politics, sometimes, 16 is greater than 19, and 2+2=2,000. But If Buhari loses this election, it will be the rudest shock of the new millennium. But the General seems to have the smell of good luck

I'll gladly give it out without any sense of guilt.

Elebiju. It's a gory sight. Several policemen I knew just lost their lives like hens. Very pathetic

I learnt over 50 people were killed. A colleague of mine was shot on his lap. It's gory. For those asking for source & picture, I can only pray you never experience half of what people experienced in Owo today.

I share ideas with fellow poultry farmers.

A great one. Our decisions should not be based on the naira & kobo we will collect from politicians. Those will finish in no time.

The only relevant information is to know how much has been stolen (if any) since 2010 when GEJ came into power. That is the piece of information we can act on

Wetin we no go hear? Anyway, politics isn't just a game of numbers, but also of power. APC will PROBABLY do same if roles were reserved.

Not even GEJ/GMB is CERTAIN of victory. Due to better organization, GMB will win more votes in the NW/NE than he did in 2011. Due to proposed deployment of Card Readers, GEJ will have fewer votes in the SS/SE than he did in 2011. With Kwara & Nasarawa under the APC, coupled with the APC's popularity in Benue & Niger States, neither party will have more than 55% of total votes in the Region. Victory for either lies with its performance in the SW where I reside. I must say the sentiment is towards the APC. However, it is too close to call & the overall outcome will be similar to that of NC with neither candidate securing more than 60% of the total votes.

ephemm. It is really 1 : 1. PDP gained 1 in Rivers; APC scored 1 in Ondo. Who laughs last? Who has made the better move? Time will tell.

Is this true? Is it not too late? And most importantly, will it make any difference in the outcome of the election?

Fayose won't run away. He'll simply decamp to the APC. That is Nigeria's politics.

News reports monitored in Akure, Ondo State capital earlier today, disclosed that the State Deputy Governor; Ali Olanusi, has left the ruling PDP for the main opposition APC. The development, coming at the eve of the Presidential election, may alter political calculations in the state as Olanusi is considered a major political force in the Akoko area of the State where he hails from. President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to clinch majority votes in the State. However, this development has cast shadow on his possible victory.

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Adamu Mu’azu, has stressed the need for the PDP’s Presidential candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan and his All Progressives Congress counterpart, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to caution their supporters against violence ahead of Saturday’s election.

Mu’azu gave the charge in a series of tweets on his official Twitter page on Tuesday.

Predicting that the poll would be peaceful, the PDP chairman tweeted a picture of Jonathan and Buhari shaking hands on May 29, the official handover day.

Mu’azu, who also promoted the ‘votenotfight’ hash tag, said the picture was symbolic because, “Politicians are friends no matter their party so don’t fight or kill yourselves because of politicians.”

Mu’azu, however, warned the opposition to desist from fomenting violence, noting that the PDP is a peaceful party.

He said, “Our party’s officials, contestants, agents and supporters must never be provoked to violence. We are a very peaceful party. This picture is symbolic because both candidates (Jonathan and Buhari) must hold on to our unity as a nation and tell their supporters.”

Mua’zu, however, expressed confidence that President Goodluck Jonathan would defeat Buhari in the Saturday’s elections because “ he has done so much within four years.

What is the correlation between voting a particular candidate and one's date of death?

Good health. Without it, money and sex won't even come to the mind.

The waiting will be over by Thursday evening. Meanwhile, the intrigues involved in politicking and electioneering go beyond what meets the eyes. A number of those fronting for either parties may be secretly working for the other.

Pathetic. Totally uncalled for.

fishleg123. Apart from the drop in number of eggs laid, what other abnormalities, if any, have you noticed? Meanwhile, how many were laid today?