₦airaland Forum

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.

sheyi86:
@farmtech forget,legsup and stagger are just article writter, which market are they supplying,hw are they parkaging their product dat others do nt do, this is practical farmer's threard nt just an article, show me d set of pple dat are really making it frm cassava nt cocoa o.

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I don't see them as such and like I said, it is all about proper marketing and God's help.

justified19:
my birds av started laying, I discovered two of d laying birds re weak(,cant walk well and finding it difficult to make sound) gasping and breathing from d anus,I av isolated dem frm d rest. pls wat cld b wrong and wat shld I use for dem. pls I need urget response from experts

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When last did you give lasota? For the main time give them tylodox and multivit.

obnelly:
What are the disadvantages of using 200watts bulb over charcoal in brooding pen.
I tried it few months back and I discovered some of my chickens are blind.
Heat is not evenly distributed
Burn excess fuel to power generator
Replacement of burn out bulb due to fluctuation in electric generator.
Let's discuss this in the meantime I will be experimenting on using poultry farm waste as alternative to generating heat for brooding in piggery and chicks brooding house.

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It is better to use some red bulbs and yellow bulbs so the place won't be too bright.

This is goodnews!!!!! At least kidnapers and terrorists will have a hard day.

One way to compete in such market is to formulate your own feed and buy and store feed ingredients when they're cheap or you plant them.

Lesgupnigeria:
A good mind should have been.able to deduce some facts from what i wrote when jasper ask some question on the third page of this thread.
Its unfortunate that you don't still want to.learn.
if you are pessimistic about cassava, why can't you venture into another business?

People who don't enjoy cultivating vegetables,divert into.casava and other crops and vice versa.
so why disturb yourself about cassava?

And if i may ask how many years experience do.you have in.marketing cassava?

There is no large scale cassava processing company in south west that i have not sold cassava to in one time or the other, so i can tell you the best scenarios to deal with them to make good profit and otherwise.

I am very sure if you are the only person that planted cassava, you will still complain that it is not profitable because i can't fathom the business sense of you cultivating cassava in the remote Saki and expect to sell in Lagos when its not a direct-consumers produce.

I have never at any point in time label anybody a failure,i have made mistakes and have openly admit it,so other people as well but the problem is never learning from your mustake and change your strategy.
You cant keep doing the same thing and expect different result.

I have helped a lot of people on my thread and i am glad about that and i am willing to help as many people as well.

You said cassava is not profitable,that i didnot do.any cassava transaction,i.showed you.

You said the GES e-wallet is a propanganda,i posted true evidences of that again

You said federal government is not giving out loans to farmers,i again posted the SMS message i.got through Bank Of Agriculture for the loan disbursed to me

You are indeed a doubting thomas.

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Two great farmers I respect a lot (and Jethro), pls stop the words' kunfu. The truth is that while some people make losses in a market, others can be gaining. It's all about getting the right market and God helping you.

Lesgupnigeria:
Thanks.
I think 20% after-profit sale charge is safer for people interested and also will be able to.give you confidence that i will work towards the success of the farm because if the produce is not sold,there will be no way i will deduct 20% from the profit.

This is actually better than charging management fee before the produce from the farm are sold.

The 20% charge is even smaller than collecting management fee from you before the produce are sold.

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I once asked him and he said it is net profit. I think that's far better than management fee. If the farm fails you pay nothing, that's quite fare to me. Another question I have is how many yrs will you charge the 20%?

Crocz:
Hahaha...really?...a donkey?...hahaha

Wtf man? ...u just crack ma ribs

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Don't ignore how helpful work animals can be. They can save you a lot from transport cost etc. If you have ever been to a farm and see how workers suffer carrying heavy loads, you will appreciate work animals. Farming with Animal Power.

Remember it was Buhari that said that if GEJ wins, they will make the country ungovernable to him. Despite that plus the security challenge, GEJ is working: http://www.google.com/m?q=achievements%20of%20gej&client=ms-opera-mini&channel=new. Whatever you can use against GEJ can be traced to that statement Buhari made. GEJ is far better than opposition blood suckers.

jamp:
good morning. on saturday i saw one of my birds walking slowly as if a load was tied behind it. the anus was big as if there was egg inside. i later kill the bird and this is what i saw inside:

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It is called egg peritonitis, compare it with this pictures to see if they're the same: http://www.google.com/search?q=egg+peritonitis&client=ms-opera-mini&channel=new&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch. Two of my birds have suffered from it.

samuel25:
Thank you all with ur contributions, we keep learning new thing everyday. It is the stress I subjected them too that caused the problem couple with heat stress and feed changed. with a rain few days back and adaptation to the feed, they are back with 68- 73% and bigger eggs, only that I have lost customers.

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I'm happy to hear that and I pray you get new customers. You can still go back and talk to your old customers, some might come back .

samuel25:
URGENT HELP PLEASE!!!
Good day experienced farmers in the house. please help me out of this problem. my layers started laying by December and by January they reached around 79 - 85%. Early February I discovered their production reduced to 60% which made me to suspect they are breaking their eggs and I redebeaked them immediately, two days later I suspected Newcastle in them (shellless egg) which I treated with Virucida and intergendox. during the same week I moved them to battery cage and the Topfeed I was using finished, I went for Amoo feed because Top feed is not available. Since then till now the production stand at 50% and the egg size became so small. the worst is that my customers are complain that the eggs are bad since that period. Truly, the eggs look watery when break and when cook, half of it is water. Please what have I done wrong. can it be the change in feed or the stress too much for them.

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You don't stress birds like that. Debeaking and moving to battery cage shud be done b4 laying start. The feed u changed to might be low quality and don't change feed suddenly, it shud happen over a period of 2 weeks.

I really pray that this will work out for you guys.

Will the police really investigate this? I don't think they will except the girl's family pay them money.