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Redomi:
Oga Noelogo82, thank you so much for sparring your times and all the chatting for me. I really appreciate
my Chicken are 6 days old today, they all doing fine
Jidestroud, thank you boss for all the advice and guideline given, no morality since I followed all you said. The only thing remain is to get the feeding tray, I will buy that tomorrow morning.

Or please can I start using feeders for them? They will be 7 days old tomorrow

Feeder trays will be fine now cos if u use other bigger feeders some may find it difficult to feeder as d feeder will be bigger than them

Chevrolet076:
@ noeloge82, jidestroud and other experienced professionals, I noticed this in one of my broilers.. it's not eating and it's losing weight, it also have saliva in its mouth when I opened it. it also have that stool in the picture and it'll be 6 weeks old on Tuesday... I've administered various antibiotics including doxycycline, tylosin, oxytetracycline, and other sulphur based antibiotics but it's not improving... any help will be appreciated Sir

You said the birds have saliva stuck in its mouth , unfortunately this has eaten deep on the bird but buy EST MIX or AMPROLIUM 20/20 and give all the birds for 5 days u can usu syringe to give this one if its very weak to take treatment

Djbush:
Good day pros' in the house,

My carpenter is in the process of completing a 2 step battery cage with floor made of wire mesh. The measurement of the cage is 10 feet by 3 feet and 4 feet height for each step. Making a total area of 30 square foot x 2=60 square foot.

I intend keeping layers for egg sake. My question;

1. How many full grown layers can the 2 step cage take in total?
2. Is it better to start with day old chicks or with point of lay chickens? Which is more profitable?

Any helpful hint is welcomed.

In a 30 square foot cage if I am to put laying birds I will not put more than 12 birds so for the double I will put 24 Birds

Doc chicks is very good but if ur considering time make sure your very sure of the source of point of lay

Buchisco22:
Both

I'm giving them tylodox

I administered lasota at 14 days

Around 5 weeks old now

If possible give them lasota tomorrow morning and continue with the tylodox on Sunday

Wiseking00:
Of which brand? Obasanjo or Agrited?

Many brands Agrited inclusive

Buchisco22:
Good day House
My broiler is breathing hard with its mouth open, also making sound while breathing
What could be the cause and solution, Please

Is it gasping for air or just snoring

What treatment have given them

When was the last time u gave them lasota

How old are there

1b8m:
2weeks today. The biggest of them weighs 540g while the smallest weighs 370g. Am I doing well my people?

Keep it up

Wumi261:
Brotherly, I may contact you next week.
It seems you're a good person to do business with cos of people's comments about you here.

No problem anytime

"Death is not the End"

Do u know u can get all male Broilers in a carton
Yes its possible just chat me on 08135348909

Busyworking:
My birds at 2weeks. Criticism is welcomed

It OK but can be better pls open up more space for the birds and increase their feeding let's see how they look in the next 1 week good luck

Redomi:
Good day sir, please I intend to raise my broilers with New Hope super starter, but the seller told me the price is 6k. I just love new hope feed.

6k for starter is too much , try another seller cos at this rate ur cost of production will be outrageous

Nothing here is free

They borrowed Nigeria money , gave us the contractor who will be paid with the money they borrow Nigeria , And now same contractor says he will build a 50million dollar Greek gift as University and provide technical staff for 5 years meaning that this technical staff are another project, when China offers a Greek gift they follow it like this and people who don't understand will keep clapping while is smiling to the bank

Chibydinho:
Is the group still on?

I really don't have any active group now

aliadi2:
Thanks for the reply sir, more grace to your elbow
Correct me if i am wrong
10ft × 21ft = 210 square feet right
Then 210/2 = 105 birds
Thanks and hope to hear from you soon

If u put 105 laying birds in a 10ft long by 21ft room , they will grow properly but in production wise they may not be super , instead put 70 birds and on a maximum 80 birds.
But that is for me you can decide to put 105 birds they will stay and move freely

1b8m:
To be honest, i haven't been consistent with heating lately. Will it cause any problem for me?

Pla just improve on that and if u suspect any abnormally just post it here
All d best

kripen:
Thanks for this information, I intend buying it on my next brooding, but with this is bye bye to Chikun.

Chikun birds have excellent results on some farmers farm although if u are not comfortable it u can leave it but some farmers have great results from it

Redomi:
Amazing, thank you sir, but two more questions
1. is it safe to order from Afrimash?
2. Which broiler should I go for, someone told me Agrited Ross 308 is the best, followed by Zartech.
What do you advice sir?

Truth be told Ross 308 is great but rating birds on a scale of 1-10 might be different based on individual management tactics deployed

If u need birds u can talk to me on 08135348909(chat pls)

aysnoopy:
If u read more on poultry, you'll understand that 3kg can be achieve between 7 to 8 weeks depends on how you're feeding dem
I raise December chicken starting from October 17 and by December 23rd, I achieve 4 to 5 kg

Very correct management is d key

potosky:
day old can even weight 3 kg in the next 7 weeks.

Correct management is d key

aliadi2:
Thanks for the reply. But someone was telling me that the stocking density for layers is 2 square feet per bird because this 15 that you're saying is too small for my eye because the place big small. Thanks and hope to hear from you soon.

That's exactly what i used but u know in deep liters birds freedom is key , so if u put down 15 birds it will work but someone with less no may achieve better result

aliadi2:
Hello Good people in the house
Please i have a 10 ft by 21.5ft space that i want to use for layers in deep litter system, how many birds can that space accomodate. Thanks

This space is not much , it may not take more than 15 laying birds for best results but if its in a battery cage of 3 steps it will conveniently take 96-120 birds

EsteemedB:
Good morning. Please how much does it cost to get a single cage? I intend having layers for eggs production.

It depends on they type of cage if its battery cage , it now depends on size like 1 unit of 96 birds cost around 100-125 some vendors are here on Nairaland
But if carpenters build that will depend on your carpenter as material prices differ

1b8m:
My 6 days old broilers. The biggest weighed 192g while the smallest weighed 136g. I've not had time to weigh all of them.

Not bad at all hope d heat source is OK

Hanariks:
I really want to Thank you for your time, advices and recommendation,
Though I didn't administer the Lasota because upon asking the woman who sold it for me, She said they have been given Lasota at 4 weeks just b4 I
came for them.
So I bought the center Cipro today and I must commend based on the result from the last few hours, it was a miracle.
The sick ones that were separated became active after few hours of administration though not as active as others but I look forward to better result by tomorrow .
No Mortality today

Thanks so much Big bro.
Pls sir I hope I have nothing to be worried about as they are spilling their feed all over the place? and what should I give them after the cipro treatment ends as they have been on too many antibacterial and anti virals in the past week

If the are eating and playing spiking food on the floor its no problem , then try and buy vitamin to support them

sorry for late response I was banned yesterday in Agric section for no reason

Ateboh:
Quite an educative and informative piece.
pls what do u mean by the embolden words?
thanks boss.


And lastly, Rule no. 8.
You don't sleep, if you sleep, your birds sleep, most especially for broilers and if your birds sleeps, they stop, growing, get them illuminated both day and night and[b] feed them Ad-libitum.[/b] That is the secret of 2.6kg in 35days on raising broilers
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You don't sleep means u have to be very active to the responsibility of raising the birds on target and not buying birds and taken less care
Feeding them Ad-libitum means that u will always put feed for them at any time their must be feed for them not when u feed in morning and they finish d feed u wouldn't add more feed cos your waiting to feed afternoon but in this case their is enough feed for them morning afternoon , night

HornyTave:
A farmer friend hinted it fell in ife. I wasn't there

Ok I heard nothing there yet maybe its not all part of ife
Just hoping this strange dry season in between rainy season will stop soon

HornyTave:
Rain showered in Benin yesterday, fell heavily in ife guess and benue - willybaby thread.

rains will be heavy in Sept

Pls are u sure it fell heavily in ife

The mods of this Agric section @Farmtech, pavore9 pls look into this issue of Emmaachile critically he has been one of the great minds in this section and has contributed a lot to the growth of the section .
Their is a mix up in the accusation levelled against him and if he was bad so many people cannot come out in his defense as the case has been so far.
And nobody except the accuser has any negative comment on him , even the accuser never accused him directly.
Let's not forget that in the past some people have accused some others and even brought proofs with time line such accused were even given time to defend their self and in the end their accounts were not even deactivated but in this case it was too fast for account deactivation
I wouldn't know if Nairaland have changed its rules but in all fairness Emmaachile s account deactivation was too sudden.
And for many that have known him to come out and defend him @seun pls look into this matter critically
Emma is a great guy

jidestroud:
Blur picture, but that looks like coryza.

trychris:
Here is another picture

That's infectious coryza

Hanariks:
Thanks so much so far sir.
Are these drugs to be gotten from the pharmacy or a vet store and sir what are the? dosage of administration

From vet and its just 1 vaccine lasota 100 doses cos 50 doses is usually scarce but if u see 50 doses u can buy if not go for 100doses and 1 or the drugs listed I put alternatives in case u can't get the first u check for any of the two
For prices it varies but with 2000 u can get both vaccine and one of d drugs

Hanariks:
The woman told me they have been vaccinated that I just need to give them multivit and antibiotics occasionally

Unfortunately her answer is not clear what I will advice for precaution is get lasota and administer to the birds the next day follow up with center cipro/Tylosin/Tylomax for 5 days let me know their condition after that .
Good luck