davidzfarm18:


Glad to see that the birds are doing just fine. you need to apply caution increasing the egg size. However. you may consider photo stimulating them for the egg no increase.whatever vitamins u are using for now.don't use more than 80% of the recommended dosages to avoid prolapse.

viktor556:
hi. Please what is photo stimulation? I got some 'foreign' results on Google but would like to know better from a Nigerian. Lol.

davidzfarm18:
@Segun1976,
have you started giving them Laxota. You also need to give routine antibiotics at this stage like Nemovit or Neoceryl plus.

Eggcelent:
omotititi. Thanks. Much appreciated. segun1976. What time of the day do you record the mortality?Have the birds been debeaked? What has been happening to the dead birds? (Is it not possible that your staff intentionally kill them to fill their pots?). Sorry about your loss. Meanwhile, I don't agree that you must lose some birds when they are just coming into lay.

Eggcelent:
omotititi. Have you ever gotten brown DOC pullets from Zartech Benin? If yes, what has been the experience in terms of liveability & production? I called Zartech Ibadan which is my usual source, but they seem fully booked for the next several weeks so I'm thinking of doing biz with Benin. Thanks. jamp. How far with the birds you were planning to buy? I believe they should be with you by now.

segun1976:
Started experiencing daily mortality with our laying birds since last week, lost about 52birds. Carried out lab test including sensitivity analyis. These test showed that all is well.
Our consultant & mentor said its normal to experience some mortlities as the flock come into lay.
Some farmers around suggests its due to excess fat (trying to get a scale to verify that). This batch was bought @ POL and now @ 27wks. Production was slow but recently being improving and now @ 55%.
I'm getting worried and needs to seek urgent help!
It's our first time and we are absentee farmer o!

davidzfarm18:


At a particular age. pullets react positively to increase in day lenght or Extra artificial Light. for example the average daylight in Nigeria for greater part of the year starts from 6am to 7pm(13hrs) Pullets coming to lay needs extra hrs of additional light to eat more food for consistent laying.
Hence the need to give extra light in the morning or at night.
literature has it that 16-17hrs of light most be achieved by 50% production.
However. so many farms achieved good production % without additional light or photostimulation.
The choice is yours.

pathology:


do u use concentrate or mash

jamp:



bros the birds are coming this month end. we are preparing for their arrival. how are ur birds doing? ur friend didn't show up again.

my first batch will be 2yrs by August and they are doing 60%(to God be the glory). they dropped from 70-60 after we changed to animal care. they are the ones feeding our 2nd & 3rd batches. we planned to push them to December before selling them.

fnk:

Just their retail 25kg starter mash. It will be good to know their fomula. At 4 weeks now, I am recording 1kg. Not bad.

Eggcelent:
segun1976. I just noticed something. You said the last Lasota was given to them at 16 weeks & they are now 27 weeks. That's 11 weeks back. Besides, you weren't the one who administered the vaccine, so you can't vouch for what was done. Leaving the Sensitivity/serological test aside, common sense/experience dictates that your birds are due for another round of Lasota. Please, do the needful.

jamp:


sorry for the loss. If the lab result did not reveal anything then I suggest you check the ni.pples. sometimes birds die due to lack of water caused by faulty ni.pples. tell your staff to check the ni.pples at least once in 2days. I once had such issues so I told my staff to always note the cages so I investigate the cause of death.

you can also check for bulling as most birds do not allow some birds to eat in the cages.

check also the beak as suggested by eggcelent.

AkayTopsy:


how do you weigh your birds? individually or in batches? and like how many birds do you have to weigh to give u the average weight for the entire set of birds?

omotititi:
jamp...how and what did you do to keep your 2years old birds producing at 70%.pls share

fnk:

We weigh them individually, and we weigh a whole bunch, and you can see from the ones you weighed that most of the other birds looks like the same size.
of course, some are about 900g some 800g and some 1.1kg etc.

In the past, at 4 weeks, most of them weighs 700g, some 600g

Gidigidi3:
Just planning:
1) Move back to villa from Abuja, that is the best option I have now.
2) Raise some loan (money matters!!!)
3) Start small


Have always thought of starting big and it has remained a dream but with what I have read here, am gonna start from my uncle's uncompleted building. I will be back to villa by end of this week.

Of course I will major in broilers because I know that it is the money spinner or doubler if you like. I have these concepts I call INTEGRATED FARMING AND MARKETING or INTEGRATED FM. I will be discussing them on this thread and see reactions to help me or anyone who buys into it to fine tune the ideas.

Hello guys, my INTEGRATED FM are not written down anywhere but they are ideas I have thought through and developed with my naija local intelligence since the first time I developed interest in poultry farming(broiler) and as well observed others who have ventured into it.

Having experienced failure twice in other areas of life and being penniless at this stage in life, I shall rise from the dust and journey along this line to stability and prosperity. Goodnight guys.

jamp:


oga fnk, its not easy to weigh the birds individually. is not easy at all. kudos .I do random weighing. which one is better analog or digital scale

Gidigidi3:
Had to relocate to another nearby villa dis yr while the court cases go on on the former 4 plots above.

Below my newly constructed broiler pen. 25 by 60ft by11ft, with farm house.
Elders in d house, hope am on wright course? Planned that it will take 1000 birds at full capacity. Thank you all for the valuable information I hv garnered here.

Gidigidi3:


Thanks to all who hv kept this thread alive, it has been two yrs since I posted this but am still in prep stage. That is vicissitudes of life for me. For my brothers in the east, always cross check and investigate properly before paying for land. Below is my would be poultry farm experience at Mgbakwu near Awka, last year.