MostWanted007:


Sharp sand can be reused? How please?

Symbiotic1:


Good day Agriculturists!!

I am running a research and also building an an incubator that would solve most problems related to the common incubators we have today.

Please I would love your encouragement by simply answering this questions. It would go a long way on my research and design implementation.

Questions
1. For incubator users. What are the challenges you face when you use your incubator?
What features and suggestions would you love to be added to an Incubator machine to solve your challenges?

2. For aspiring users. Why haven't you gotten an incubator? What are your challenges? Please reasons.


in summary.. if you use, what are the challenges you face? If you need an incubator but don't have what is stopping you? What are your challenges?


Thank you very much. Need responses ASAP. God bless

azikiweironsi:


Where is your location sir ?
Can I get pure Fulani Males and Females from your farm ?
If not can you help to source for it ?
Please let me have your details or you can reach my whatsapp no 08056152810
Thanks and God bless you sir.

kaycino:
what abt noiler male x noiler female ? Or cockerel x female noiler?

GafarOlatunji:
Good day everyone

@native chicken, if I may ask, do boiler x fullani do better than pure noiler? , or maybe your feeding parten is good, can you share how you feeding them? , do you free range of cage? .

My pure noilers are in there 16 weeks now and the biggest rooster is just 2kg, their average weight is 1.7kg and the smallest is still 1.3kg, am free ranging, and feeding morning and evening, simulated feeds in the morning and kitchen waste in evening , sometimes I feed them waste fruit in afternoon if available.

kaycino:
Wow @ 8weeks looking so big

sodeeqsulaimon88:
Hello my Boss in the house
I'll like to ask some questions
I i was opportuned to see my grandma cockerel eating maggot even when feed was made available.my questions are
1.is it possible to rear chicken using maggots only with No feed
2.can we mix broiler feed with maggot if yes in what ratio

Farouq94:


Thank you for sharing your insights.

I am trying to see the easiest way for me to capture the termites on a large scale at the cheapest cost possible. Cartons are not available to me, but I have an abundance of rice straws and stalks, so that seems to be the most economical option for me.

My location is very dry. So I have never seen a worm in my farm. But I have a lot in my home garden, I captured some last year in the effort of starting a worm bin, everything was going fine for a bit, but the liquid content in the bin became too much and the worms all died. It was demoralising and since then I haven’t tried again.

Knowing chickens love them now, I will definitely give it a another go!

Do you use poultry litter only for your worms?

QTCL:
Nice birds,do you vaccinate them at this point or is there any organic treatment you use at there early stage.Am saying this because for other birds like broilers,layers,noilers..we buy in bulk and do lasota,gumboro fowl pox but in a case where chicks are hatched in clusters from time to time,how can this vaccination be carried out.i give mine lasota when giving to my other birds ...

mojid22000:


Which is the rooster is it the fulani or the noiler?

Farouq94:


There are quite good local incubators that you can get made. That is with the solar battery or with kero lamp. The person that made my incubator said a 50 amps battery with a 130w panel can power my incubator 24/7.m, and it has a 300 eggs capacity.

Farouq94:


Do you keep records of the eggs you get from those 21 local hens weekly vs your noilers?

QTCL:
Do you synchronize the brooding or doing it randomly depending on availability of a broody hen.Can one force the local hens to get broody?

QTCL:
Are you using an incubator to hatch or local hens?
And when you said one can get 200 fertile eggs weekly from 50 hens,are you refering to local hens or noiler hens?

No, i dont have an incubator yet. I make use of local hens for now, as u can see in the pix.

I use a cross of Fulani Male x Noiler Females.
My Noilers give me an average of 5eggs per week. 200 is actually a conservative estimate.

Farouq94:


Maybe they’ve not been widely accepted or they do not have enough funding to commercialize them.

Your eggs, have they hatched?

Farouq94:


It is very likely. Do you have them in your farm? I haven’t seen/heard about anyone who’s actually reared them.

Farouq94:


I have read about the Funaab Alpha chicken one time, I likened them to Noilers and based on the information they provided, noilers were superior.

Farouq94:
Scavenging Feed Resource Base (SFRB)

Because of the long time to maturity and the comparatively low prices of local chickens, it is of immense economic benefit to allow these chickens to free-range for their feed. To achieve maximum efficiency, supplemental feeding should be done in the morning, before they are allowed to free-range and later in the afternoon.

SFRB is basically the total amount food resources available in the environment that the chickens can use as feed.

Local chickens are very intelligent scavengers, they scavenge for insects to bulk up on protein, grits to help in digestion, grasses for vitamins, weed/grain seeds for fibre/energy and so on.

If you’re looking to raise chickens domestically, look at the volume of kitchen waste (in the form of leftover food) you produce, the expanse of the area in your backyard. How many chickens can they support?

If you’re raising chickens at farm level, look at your surroundings. Are there a lot of trees/shrubs/grasses in the area? Remember the presence of trees has a ripple effect on the environment. Leaves fall and decay, the soil becomes rich and a breeding ground for biota, which chickens feed on. Compost is another way to feed chickens. Chickens are excellent ‘composters’, they turn the pile and eat what they can.

sodeeqsulaimon88:
@ Nativechicken can you please tell us the names of these things in Yoruba if possible and if a noiler is cross bred with a native chicken what are the characteristics of the chick as in size,resistance to disease,ability to lay egg and so