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Good job bro...starting with 150 birds on Friday with your analysis as a guide.
Pls do you have a reliable feed formula for starter and finisher?

@saintfasco...it's just a natural thing to do in a long distance transaction.If you ordered for 6wks old turkey and I have 4 wks old on my farm,I would send you the 4 wks as 6 wks.
So don't put all the blames on Foltem,it's one of the risks involved when buying brooded birds.
However pls keep posting the hatcheries phone numbers,it will save us from dubious transactions.

Yes still there.

Got it long ago.
Sorry can't remember the cost.

I don't use battery cage but I believe by putting some chunks of charcoal around the cage

I found out during my research that charcoal kills bad odour in the pen.This is very true as my local turkeys pen which used to smell bad anytime it rains now is with no odour.Charcoal works like magic but it makes pen and birds to look dirty.
There are other benefits of charcoal on animals and humans.

There are good hatcheries in Ibadan to order from,and we have some agents here on nairaland.
I normally order from poultryplaza.com,they are very reliable.

See pic...

I weighed my backyard birds today....
7wks Broilers - 1.2 - 2.0kg
8wks noilers - 620g - 1.6kg
7wks turkey - 600 - 900g

Vaccination for turkey is very similar to that of Broilers.
Anyway checkout this:

Are they DOC?
Your biosecurity is very important,don't joke with it.
Wish you all the best

This will be my next backyard poultry project.
Brooding space is being prepared.Planning to use a box made of carton in one of my BQ rooms.

Noticed like a small bulge on the leg of my foreign turkey.Bird has not been feeding well lately.Pls what could it be and the treatment.
Thx
See pics...

I have been trying to get how profitable broiler farming is too.My first set of 50 birds are 7wks old,birds remaining 41 with 9 mortality.The highest weight is 1.9kg,their weights is not uniform.So how am I sure of getting 3kg at 10wks?



quote author=madgoat post=58423835]

I think selling it live is more practical and realistic than selling it to frozen meat sellers in lagos especially when not done on massive scale.
How profitable is broiler farming and whats the profit margin like? By the way, i am into some other agric things thats why i have a lot of reservations about selling it frozen. I like being realistic [/quote]

Rinse a cup or so of rice in a few cups of water. The water will get cloudy as it picks up starches from the rice. Remove the rice and cook it for dinner or throw it into your compost pile. What we are after is the starchy water.

Take your dish of starchy water and find a safe place you can leave it for 3-7 days. I suggest somewhere warm and out of the way so it doesn’t get spilled or disturbed. I usually keep mine in the kitchen on top of the fridge, since its slightly warm and will stay undisturbed. Bacteria from the environment will be attracted to the starchy water and will colonize the liquid in your dish.

Loosely covered rice wash collecting bacteria on my dirty counter.

After a few days, the liquid will start to separate into three distinct layers:

Top- floating solids and maybe a little mold or funky stuff growing.
Middle- Cloudy liquid full of native bacteria, including Lactobacillus
Bottom- Sinking solids, rice bits, etc.
The middle layer is what we are after, so separate it from the rest and move it to a larger jar or container. The easiest way is to use your turkey baster to suck it up and transfer it to a jar. If you don’t have a baster, you can skim the top layer off and carefully pour the middle layer into a new container. However you do it, try to isolate the middle layer. It doesn’t have to be perfect, so just do your best to separate the middle layer without taking too much of the top or bottom layers.

Step 2: Add milk so the Lactobacillus takes over the culture-

Native Bacteria cultures ready to add milk.

So now that we have our culture containing a diverse group of native bacteria, its time to separate out the Lactobacillius. As you may have guessed, Lactobacillus LOVE milk, specifically the sugar lactose. By adding lots of milk to our collection of wild bacteria, we will encourage the Lactobacillus to take over and dominate the culture. Before long they will take it over completely, and we will be left with only the Lactobacillus we are after.

In a large jar or container, combine about 10 parts milk to 1 part of your native bacteria culture from step one.

So for every 100 mL of culture from step one, you will need about one liter of milk.

Measurements don’t need to be exact, but make sure to leave a few inches of room at the top of your container. Loosely cover it, but don’t seal it completely air tight. We are trying to keep outside air from getting in, but still want the container to be able to vent excess gas if it needs to. You could also use an airlock lid on your container like I am doing.

Leave it undisturbed for 5-10 days at room temperature.

After a few days, the bacteria + milk mixture will start to separate into layers.

At the top, a cheesy layer will form, and the bottom will be a cloudy liquid, usually cloudy white with a little yellow tint to it.

It will also start to smell like stinky cheese. Usually the smell stays mostly in the container, but be aware this process does create some cheesy odor that you may find unpleasant.

We are after the liquid layer, but the cheese layer is full of beneficial bacteria as well. It makes a great addition to your compost pile or soil. I’ve read you could also probably eat it or feed it to your animals, (its basically cheese and beneficial bacteria) but it smells pretty weird so I have yet to try it myself. It usually goes in my compost pile.

After about 5-10 days, the mix should be completely separated into a solid layer and a liquid layer. Use your turkey baster, strainer, or careful pouring to separate the liquid into a different jar or container. This liquid layer is full of the Lactobacillus we are after.



Day 1- Milk and native bacteria culture combined. The purple and blue thingies are “Pickle Pipe” one way valves that allow the jars to vent air out but not in. They are nice tools to have when making this sort of thing, but not required.



Day 2- starting to separate



Day 5- Mostly separated.



Day 7- Separation Complete



Strainer lid- very useful but optional. Available most places that sell canning jars.



Cheese chunk and lacto culture after separating with strainer lid



Cheese!

Step 3: Add sugar to the lactobacillus culture to preserve and stabilize it. Mix your lacto culture with a roughly equal amount of sugar or molasses.

So if you have 1 liter of lacto culture, add about 1 liter of molasses or 1 kilogram (about 2.2lbs) of sugar.

In order to stay alive and happy in their jar, your Lactobacilli need a long term food source. Adding a bunch of sugar or molasses gives them something to snack on and will preserve your Lacto culture for a year or more. The type of sugar doesn’t seem to matter too much, but I prefer organic cane sugar as its not bleached or as heavily processed as other varieties. The type of sugar you use may effect the color of your final product, but I’ve made many batches with several different types of sugar and they all seemed to work fine. The finished liquid is ready to use and stable to store at room temp for at least a year, and probably much longer.



Finished Lacto cultures. Color may vary based on the type of sugar you use.

Click on the link below for DIY Lactobacillus for your birds.
Easy to make...just follow the steps

:httpshttps.dudegrows.com/soup-lactobacillus-culture/

Flat 38b Stella Obasanjo estate,lokogoma Abuja.
Farm in Nassarawa

Just called to thank you bro.
Nice post.More grease to your elbow.
I'm following diligently�



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Guy you can say what you want but, get it clear if your intention was clear about the whole stuff you should be able to tell yourself the truth, so you were busy with your meeting for two weeks abi, am just sorry for your next victim.... You said you wanted to dash me #3000 see your life. Liars will always find a place in hell.. Foltem you know what you are saying all this because i was not there with you thank your stars... Lets me even ask you self what was your rationale for accepting to discount if not for the fact that you equally know you evil motives...
Pls nobody should even order for any brooded birds from anyone in location not close to him or her, because if you order is been subchanged you wont have any claim to lay, just the way this bastard son of a thousand fathers is here denying and deceiving people in circuit.... Na you pikin go be yeye bet me and see..
As promised call this numbers of various Hatcheries if you need day old birds delivered to any location in Nigeria.
Nastech 08039371212
Sabtech 09022290888
Yummfy 07036708083
Zartech 08055990380
Amo 08113955578
Fidan 07066577274..

More to come! Thank me later.. 08168650909[/quote]

jksxxxx:
.I stocked 125 so far just 3 died due to my carelessness ...I made my own food half bag of feed ,then soya beans fried ,GMC,pic,and cray fish ..hoping to sell at the end of 1 months to get little gain

From my little experience it's better for you to use commercial feed till the 4wks you selling them off.
Mortality so far is very good but it could get bad with formulated feed.
Best of luck

Lols...thanxalot.Lessons learnt.

Weighed birds yesterday as usual.
6 wks Broilers - 800g - 1.6kg.Although there are 2 chicks with 400g and 420g.

3 wks Broilers - 320g - 520g.This weight is quite low when compared to the weight of the 1st batch,at 3wks highest was 620g.The low weight is due to the cossidiosis attack they had at 1 week old caused by wet litter.

6wks ForeignTurkey - 500 - 800g
7 wks Noilers 500 - 740g

The adult local turkeys are doing fine too,killed 1 hen last week for BBQ.Expecting another 2 hens to start laying this week...

This is update on my backyard birds

kioboy:


get old newspaper or carton and cover the entire sawdust for now. raise the drinkers too

Good idea.
You can also use wood shavings instead of the dust.
For now you can not control pooing in their feed with the tray unless you stop using the tray and introduce feeding cans.

mamabj:
Thanks for yesterday's delivery in Owo ,ondo state.
I was not very sure ur company will deliver, but I took the risk, I am glad I did.
Keep it up.

Excellent!
Pls who did the supply...and of what?
Thanks

[quote author=folteminvestment post=58108346][/quote]
Hehehe...who are we to believe now.The scammer or the scammer(lol).
Anyways,thx for the post SAINTFASCO,was about ordering from him.
Thx for your reply to the post too FOLTEMINVESTMENT,some transactions do go wrong but give more clarification as a post like this goes a long way.
Guess I also complained about your WhatsApp no recently.I really need birds...Broilers and foreign turkeys.

Interesting...pls do keep us posted.All the best.

Update on my backyard:
Birds are doing very fine after a strong battle with wet litter which almost resulted in cossidiosis attack.
Their poop is now dry and ok.
Lost like 23 birds,now left with -
1st batch: 6 wks- 40 Fidan Broilers and 4 foreign Turkeys.
2nd batch: 2 wks-37 Cobb 700 and 4 Local Turkey.
Lost quite a number from the 2nd batch as they were attacked while still in brooding.
Just 2 birds were lost from 1st batch,I believe this is due to the organic stuffs they have been taking to build their immune system.
Lesson:
Newbies like me should try to avoid formulating feeds and if there's a need for it,use reputable feed mill.

Turks:
Very true. But then again, it goes beyond LAB.

Wow!God bless you real good oas99.
Just watched some videos on lacto on YouTube...just like abc to make.
Correct!

Ok now

The formulated feed is too high in protein and not suitable for broilers.it resulted in wet litter as it makes them to drink lots of water which resulted in watery poo and hence wet litter.
Had to add some maize ofal to the feed to balance the protein.
Lost some birds though but all thanks to the organic stuffs I give the birds which has boosted their immune and resistance to diseasea
Birds are fine now,feeding right and well.
Many thanks to the genius on this platform

You are 100% correct,it's the feed formulation.
It is too high in protein because I needed higher protein for the turkeys.
High cp makes broilers drink more water thereby their poo becomes very watery and wet the litter.
I was advised to get maize ofal to reduce the protein.
Lost couple of birds due to this but litter is no more wet as at this morning and their poo is becoming normal again.
Wet litter must always be avoided in poultry and its better for newbies in the biz to use commercial feeds.lessons learnt in a hard way tho
Thanks to the gurus on this platform...Emmachile,jjkenny,Turks...