Godshand1:
I'm delighted to read these wealth of experiences shared here.

PLEASE URGENT ADVICE IS NEEDED!!!

I'm new in broiler farming, though an experienced friend advises me. I have 385 surviving broilers (out of 403 stock of 1 day old chicks) which are 4 weeks old, today. I administered Lasota on my broilers yesterday morning. But this morning two have died and two are very weak. I also discovered that some of them are infected with coccidiosis (and are discharging blood in their faeces), some showing symptoms of cough (discharge of green faeces), some white watery faeces while others a combination of two cases.

In view of this complicated case of infections, can I administer about three different antibiotics at the SAME TIME against the three major infections suspected?

Thanks.

endy247:
Hello house pls i need ur contributions on this, my layers are 13months this january, they started laying at 23weeks they were doing 80-88% b4, bt since december their productn droped to 70-75% sometimes less, i've done all i cld still nothing. So cld it be dat they are tired already or sometin else is disturbing dem, someone said it might be molting bt i dont tink so. Pls house wat cld be the problem

DammyOlu123:


Drop your number, let's talk. She stays at Alakia axis, if that'll be convenient for you. I don't know if she'll still have the same stock I bought from though.
damilola_toochi@yahoo.com. Mention me if you send an email.

davidzfarm18:

@ 13th month. The law of diminishing return steps in. Mean while you may need to give multivitamins .
75% is not bad though.

endy247:
Thanx davidzfarm, bt do u think they will still be laying till december cos dat's when am planing to sell dem off. Again which vitamin can u recomend 4 me.

davidzfarm18:

Laying till DEC is not the issue here but laying productively, as soon as you are not making enough profit to cover ur expenses, you may let them go.for vitamins, Amino total or introvit A

eminentslug:
I hail farmers in the house, I have experience in poultry with cockerels but now I want to go into layers with plans of starting with 350 DOC's using battery cage as I have estimated 900 naira pers chick to POL excluding housing.... so I would like to know which breed of layers is preferable, is it the black or the brown ones and also which farm would you suggest I order from, because I have heard some farmer complain about certain farm, someone was said obj layers have high mortality............

jamp:
my dear there are many farms with good doc. Farms like obj,CHI,zartech,marks are good. Sometimes people with bad management practice complain about farms not having good doc. All my birds are from CHI and the reault has been great but i want to try other farms later this year.
As for the color, brown are good producers they lay higher number of eggs but blacks have high resistance to disease.blacks also lay big eggs. Another thing to consider is loxation cos of wheather.Cheers.

Teaphar015:
hello good morning
good farmers in the house.My name is latifah.i am a graduate with Bachelor's degree in microbiology.I'v had interest in agriculture especially poultry farming since my childhood.Now as the economy of Nigeria is..being self employed(farming especially)is the only solution to unemployment problems.
To cut the long story short,I ventured into broiler production already.God so good, its been going on great.No mortality at all in my broiler production farm, except for d turkeys I am rearing as well.
Now the problem I have is that I started late October 30th to be precise coz of fear of bird flu(rumour I guess).so, I cudnt sell them off for Xmas and new year coz dey avnt really grown very big.
Now, my fear is..I changed my mind to raise them till Easter which is going to be almost 5months of their production.
What do you advice me to do because..I am going to have overweighed cost of production.and im sure its not economical enough to sell them for #3500.Im scared.im finking of getting help on processing into frozen chicken by ending of jan when they will be exactly 3months.
Please I need your advice on what to do and how to go about it. Thanks in advance.im new here, and it feels good to be part of ds great forum.

nnaemeka1990:
Farmers I hail o

Pls I need more information about health hazards of poultry droppings.

Something about ammonia compounds and lungs infections,

Occasional sharp pains around the chest cavity during breathing, pains at the back, around the spinal cord.

Am sure most guys here that do the day to day cleaning of the poultry farm themselves must have been experiencing such or something similar.

eminentslug:
I hail farmers in the house, I have experience in poultry with cockerels but now I want to go into layers with plans of starting with 350 DOC's using battery cage as I have estimated 900 naira pers chick to POL excluding housing.... so I would like to know which breed of layers is preferable, is it the black or the brown ones and also which farm would you suggest I order from, because I have heard some farmer complain about certain farm, someone was said obj layers have high mortality............

eminentslug:

thanks @jamp. so how do i go about it if i want to order from CHI like you

davidzfarm18:
Vaccine failure. just had a very nasty experience with Gumboro Vaccine failure. wiped out over 900 5wks pullet. pls folks. be mindful of vaccinating ur flocks in this hot season. never knew Gumboro is this deadly.

olawale4725:



Boss, how does hot season result to vaccination failure. Pls educate me

davidzfarm18:

Hot weather is not conducive for the birds hence they are stressed up. that's why it's better to administer ur vaccine early in the morning or late evening.

twoMcfemad:
Imported fairly used cages for sale. Location: Ofada, Ogun State. 30 units of 96 birds. Cage less than 2 years and doing second cycle of birds. Price is 40k/unit.

davidzfarm18:
Hello friends and colleagues. How are your birds doing?
Pls ensure strict bio- security measures this season.
You are equally advised to spray ur pen and environs regularly.
V.ox, Virucid, polidine shd be added to the drinking waters regularly.
no farmer here will suffer any loss this yr.
it shall be a most productive yr for all.
cheers.

Cossycute:
pls what do i use to spray my pen and environs(name)

davidzfarm18:

u can use polidine.
or simple pure iodine .

davidzfarm18:

u can use polidine.
or simple pure iodine .

Cossycute:
where do they normally sell it pls?Thanks a bunch 4 ur speedy responses.

twoMcfemad:
Imported fairly used cages for sale. Location: Ofada, Ogun State. 30 units of 96 birds. Cage less than 2 years and doing second cycle of birds. Price is 40k/unit.