₦airaland Forum

Sometimes I ask why God created snakes. Deadly ropes.

Pavore9:
This biodigester (the one with canvass/tarpaulin) is the owner's patent so the thickness and quality of the canvass is not in my privy!

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I really wonder if they sell sun-resistant and gas tight tarpaulines or waterproof in nigeria, anyone know where I can get them?

sheyi86:
Ok sir, since u know it teach me nw atleast wit pic i wl understand.thnks

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There are different types of digester, but the cheapest is the one they use sun-resistant waterproof to construct. They call it the bag digester and if you know plumbing you can build your own. With digester like that you don't put grass because it can block the outlet. You only use manure and some kitchen wastes. If you're looking for where to start educating yourself about biogas digesters, I wrote about them here.

omejeo:
Pls house help me my farm solder ant is coming there annd disturbing my birds pls help me on how to eradicate them.i am using otapiapia but it has no impacts thanks

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Most importantly, keep the whole surroundings clean - no spilled feed, no droppings, no food waste etc. I found that I usually get the problem when I become lazy and allow the surrounding to get dirty. I usually burn them with fire, use salt water or dd force.

tucurj:
Pls House,how Many Kg Of Maize Will I Had To One Bag (25kg) Of Top Feed 40% Layer Concentrate.What Was Written On The Bag Is That I Only Need To Had 60 Maize But I Dont Understand The 60,pls Help Me Out.

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I don't understand the question, what do you mean by 40 percent layer concentrate? Also how much kg are you mixing? Is it up to 1 ton?

So the seeds can be this costly.

aAK1:
farmtec so you served in minna? I am based in minna. I tried getting your number from your Facebook page. Please can you send me your number Adebayoadeolu5@gmail.com

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Sorry for the delay, I'll email u as soon as possible.

I must surely build this thing one day, all I'm waiting for is when I get a farm I'll be staying for a long time.

Nice one buddy. I suggest you consider rearing some saleable animals that will provide you with plenty manure.

AkayTopsy:
Farmers in the house. Can anyone give a scientific explanation to the following:

Fig1: The Egg weighing 98grams.
Fig2: The cracked Egg carrying another shelled egg inside.
Fig3: The inner Egg after crack has a normal yolk and egg white.

Flock age: 24week old.

The average egg size of my flock is 55grams. Though on the average daily I get 1 or 2 extra large size egg, but they usually carry 2 yolks (not shelled egg like this one)

Any scientific explanation for this?

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It's normal so far as it does not happen all the time. You'll likely see different kinds of abnormal eggs like the ones described here.

fishleg123:
Good morning house, pls, what is d exact amount of grower feed that a laying bird, 20 weeks old, should be eating for best performance.
Thanks.

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There are charts where you can get that information from. There is one here. The one there is for hyline brown layers but I think Isa brown and shaver are the common layers available in nigeria. The feed they will need will be slightly higher than that of hyline, so you have to use it to get estimate values.

mercylicious:
@kevin,
plz share your result on gnld supergrow for poultry. did u notice any improvement on the test broilers?

@house, i heard from.unconfirmed sources that garlic helps in feed conversion to weight in broilers. has anyone tried it?

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Health Benefits Of Garlic to chickens. I'll be testing it on my next batch of chicks.

You have some pictures?

Seun:
There's nothing evil about the human body. This is how religion enslaves people. Skimpy dressing is distracting at worst, not evil. Don't hate.

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The thing there is that if you expose your unclothedness and cause others to sin, you body becomes an instrument for evil. God hate lust and He won't spare those that lead others to lust. Decency matters everywhere, not only in the church.

The main thing I noticed here is that you're not feeding them fine. According to this chart for Hyline brown, at 23 wks they're suppose to consume about 100g/bird/day (some other charts put it at 112g for Isa brown). 112g x 506=56.672kg. So increase their feed.

justified19:
what are d imolications of injectin laying birds, cos I consider doing KOMOROV for ma laying birds soon.

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U shud have done that b4 they start laying. Since it's now like this, go ahead and inject. Give them Amin'total 3 days before and 3 days after vaccinating. Don't worry much about drop in production, worry about Newcastle diseases causing 50% mortality, more or less.

Where can one get tilapia fingerlings?

Maizube farms, Niger state, has a crocodile pond. I saw the pond during my NYSC service year.

milvet:
Mercyli... I would lik 2 visit ur farm one day i stay at 3-3.. Wat do u say?

I too.

kastonkastrol:
rubbish..... Why haven't the APCs been used in combating boko haram in the north east? What's the use of the bloody APCs if the won't be used in the war-front ?

The same lie they are telling us about the "innoson-motors" is the same lie they told us about "made in Nigeria smart phones". Till date, am yet to see a single "made in Nigeria car" plying our roads. Abi are the innoson motors invincible?

They just keep lieing to Nigerians who are wallowing in the pool of gullibility. And because Nigerians(all of us) are generally lazy to conduct a simple research about the lies that are been fed to them, we just swallow everything.

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Oh what are pity. The first time I saw innosin vehicle on the road, I nearly miss it because I thought it was america-made. You have to look very closely next time.

Trueigbo:
Hello house. When is d right time to change from chick mash to growers?
Is it at 2months or by body weight?
If by body weight, what is the target body weight for changing to growers.

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The best is to base it on body weight. There is a chart where you can get how much feed and estimated body weight for layers. You can see it here: Feed consumption Plan and Body Weight Target for Laying Hens

stevecrown:
@farmtech sori can u pls post d signature

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Signature is the link you see below my posts.

onyenro:
Instead of sinking money into youwin were most people don't feel the impact, I think it is time to bring back our marketing boards. This boards do the grading and standardization of these cash crops to meet international standards.
MB help to set pre -farming prices so that farmers know at what rate they would be producing and selling to the MB After production.
Without marketing boards, I am sorry.... same old song will be sang. Billions would be needed but I think, this is were the private sector should come in.
There are no plantation agriculture in Nigeria, especially in the north. I know of just two okomu oil and the other in edo state. Plantation agriculture should be encouraged especially in cash crop production.

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Nice contribution.

aAK1:
Hello fnk, farmtec and Co. I need your numbers. I'm applying for a grant and I really need help feeling the form.

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You can contact me on facebook thru my sig line.

EZEUDENE:
plz farm tech tell me more abt de breeders and also de one use in producing broilers av been looking 4 de solution since tanx 2 fnk

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I don't know much about where to get it here in naija, but hatcheries import their own breeders. There is a lot of learning to do if you want to hatch your own eggs. The breeders have there own special vaccination plan so that they can pass the immunity to the chicks.

Is it battery cage you are using?

fnk:
Hello my people, I need some info on a new project that I am working on. I bough 200 layers 10 weeks ago and they are doing well, I want to use them as parent stock and will like to know from the house how to go about that, what to feed them and went, do I introduce male chicken to them what what male chicken, a cocrel? I also have about 200 11 weeks cocrel in the farm. I actually want to buy an incubator and just hatch for my self. It will really mitigate my electrical cost since while I am brooding my day olds and can be hatching another set of 1000 chicks with the same electrical cost. take away transportation to Ibadan, mortality from travel stress and the flunctuation of the price of the day old in the market, all this can reduce my overhead and increase my profit margin giving me the room to compete. I am seriously hiting the sales outlet and have bunch of eateriesand supermarkets lined up now to waiting for us to be suppling them, but some of our challenges had always been our price comparing it with the big guys out there. These outlet likes the taste and look of our chicken, but wants me to reduce from my N680/kg to 650/kg that they buy from the other guys. If I can do what I explained above, I can save myself some of this overheads and be able to compete. We have two outlets now that their combined demand is over 1500 birds per week, so even if my take home is N20/bird after all the overheads are taken care of, it is still not a bad deal, and this is just from two outlets and we still have a few more in our pool of customers. And I know milling my own feeds will really help reduce the overhead.

So guys, please I need help with info on this parent stock deal, I have no clue how to go about it yet or have not bordered about it till now.

Thanks guys.

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Birds used to produce layers are special, they are called breeders. The common layers can not produce chicks that will perform well.

stevecrown:
@farmtech pls HW can u get ur WhatsApp numb pls am just a new member dis my contact stevecrown681@gmail.com tanks a bunch

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I'm not in whatsapp for now, but we can meet on facebook through my signature.

justified19:
6weeks ago,..ow often can I give dem vitamin?

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Give lasota every 6 weeks. But since some may be sick now, give them the antibiotics first and vaccinate after 3 days.
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You can give vitamins depending on the stress ur birds are exposed to. Stress may be high temperature, cold, relocating etc. I give mine every week or every 2 weeks. I give for 3 consecutive days and I prefer Amin'total.