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VACCINATION AND MEDICATION SCHEDULE FOR LAYING BIRDS

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Day 1: Glucose + water  Day 2-5: Antibiotics only Day 6-7 :Vitamins Day 8: Gumboro  Day 9: Antistress/Vitamins Day 10-12: Coccidiostat Day 13-14: Antistress /Vitamins Day 15-20: Clean water Day 21: Lasota Day 22-23: Vitamins/Antistress Day 24-26: Coccidiostat Day 27-30: Vitamins /Antistress Day 31-35:  Antibiotics Day 36-40: Antistress / Vitamins Day 46 :Fowl cholera vaccine Day 47-50: Antistress/Vitamins Day 51: Ndvk / komorov Day 52 -55: Vitamins / Antistress Day 56: Deworming Day 57: Vitamins/ Antistress Day 58:-60: Clean water Day 61 :Anticoryza Day 62 -65: Anticoccidiostat Day 66 -70: Vitamins /Antistress Day 71-75: Antibiotics Day 76-80: Vitamins / Antistress Day 81:Debeaking Day 82 -87: Vitamins Day 88 : Deworming Day 89-95: Antistress/Vitamins 16 weeks :3 in 1 vaccine   General Administration to poultry flocks Flock sizes of commercial poultry operations can be as high as 45,000 birds in a single air space. For this reason it has becom...

BRANCHES OF POULTRY BUSINESS

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๐™‹๐™Š๐™๐™‡๐™๐™๐™” ๐™๐™€๐™€๐˜ฟ ๐˜ฟ๐™„๐™Ž๐™๐™๐™„๐˜ฝ๐™๐™๐™„๐™Š๐™‰: Being a poultry feed distributor simply entails marketing for a brand or brands of feed producers.For example we have breed well, new hope, ultimate. A distributor can choose to be a retailer or wholesaler for any brand of feed.This is best located in farm settlement areas, were you are surrounded by poultry farms ๐™๐˜ผ๐˜ฝ๐™‡๐™€ ๐™€๐™‚๐™‚ ๐˜ฟ๐™„๐™Ž๐™๐™๐™„๐˜ฝ๐™๐™๐™„๐™Š๐™‰ This is a very lucrative aspect of poultry farming that deals with buying of eggs from farms in large quantities and supplying to homes, retailers, hotels, restaurants and sub distributors.This can even be done from home, with proper logistics distributing eggs can be a gold mine ๐˜ฝ๐™‡๐™Š๐™‚๐™‚๐™„๐™‰๐™‚ just like what you are reading right now❗ www.Agricparrot.blogspot.com is a blogging site, that disseminates information in agriculture. poultry blogging is also a branch of poultry business. However contents on the blog must contain true and verified infor...

SNAIL FARMING: PREVENTING ANT INFESTATION IN SNAIL FARMING

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Ant infestation is snail farming has been the fear of  many existing farmers, just like the fear of many poultry farmers could be bird flu or Newcastle disease Ant infesting a pen is cable of wiping out the whole flock in minutes. The most  painful part of ant infestation is that little or nothing can be done once the snails have been infested on Hence, prevention is better than cure COVER YOUR SNAIL PEN : Most ant infested pen are 70% due to poorly pens , broken walls or holes, thereby giving an entrance to the ants.The farmer ensures that there are no holes or uncovered part of the pen to prevent any form of  ant infestation AVOID LEFT OVER FOODS : After every consumption by snails. It's the duty of the snail attendant to take away left over foods, as the left over foods can become attractant to ants  DO NOT PLACE ANY ANT ATTRACTANT CLOSE TO YOUR PEN:   This simply entails keeping anything can attract ant to you pen far awa...

FISH FARMING IN NIGERIA

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There are so many information on the internet on how to start fish farming in Nigeria especially catfish farming but few are detailedly enough to really assist aspiring fish farmer to get started. I will be endeavor to make this article as detailed as possible and hope that other experienced fish farmer will add to it as we try to answer people’s questions by commenting. One of the most popular agribusiness in Nigeria is fish farming and for good reasons. Gone are the days when the only means of getting fish is by catching it in the local rivers and ponds through trial and errors. Today, the modern farm practice has made it possible to grow fish in the farms and control the input. Matured Catfish, Ready For Market | www.farmerpreneur.blogspot.com If you are thinking of business to start now, I recommend you start Catfish Farming. If you are an existing farmer and you are looking to expand your farm capacity, I’d encourage you add fish farming to your line...

IS AGRICULTURE A GOOD CAREER TO EMBARK ON?

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-WHAT IS A CAREER -WHAT IS A CAREER IN AGRICULTURE -I AM A STUDENT FROM THE FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE -ARE THEY IMPLICATIONS OF STUDYING AGRIC RELATED COURSES - LIST OF NIGERIAN INSTITUTIONS THAT STUDIES AGRICULTURE AND AGRICULTURAL RELATED COURSES  ๐™’๐™ƒ๐˜ผ๐™ ๐™„๐™Ž ๐˜ผ ๐˜พ๐˜ผ๐™๐™€๐™€๐™ For many people a career means a part  of life that is concerned with employment .From occupational stand point,it means the sum total of various jobs you may hold during your life time .However  , these definition do not fully capture the meaning of career. We would like you to think of career in a broader more life encompassing way.Think of this decisions you make about a job or a college major as valuable components of a life long process.When views in this manner , career can be defined as the sum total of decisions that direct your educational, social, economic, political and spiritual endeavors and reflect your unique personality characteristics and basic life values ๐™’๐™ƒ๐˜ผ๐™ ๐™„๐™Ž ?...

๐Ÿ‡ป ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡จ ๐Ÿ‡จ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ ๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡น ๐Ÿ‡ฎ ๐Ÿ‡ด ๐Ÿ‡ณ  ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡จ ๐Ÿ‡ญ ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ฉ ๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ‡ช  ๐Ÿ‡ซ ๐Ÿ‡ด ๐Ÿ‡ท  ๐Ÿ‡ต ๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡น ๐Ÿ‡ธ 

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Day 1: glucose + water(ease out stress) Day 2-5: Antibiotics only Day 6-7: vitamins Day 8: 1st Gumboro Day 9:Antistress/vitamins Day 10-12: Coccidiosistat Day 13-14: vitamins/Antistress Day 16 -20:clean water Day 21: Lasota Day 22 -23: vitamins Day 24-26: Coccidiosistat Day 27-30: vitamins Day 31-35: Antibiotics Day 36-40: Vitamins Day 41:fowl pox vaccine Day 42-45: Antistress Day 46: fowl cholera vaccine Day 47-50: Antistress/vitamins Day 51:Ndvk/kamarov Day 52-55: vitamins/Antistress Day 56: Deworming Day 57: Vitamins/Antistress Day 61:Anticoryza vaccine Day 62-65: Coccidiosistat Day 66-70: Antistress Day 71-75 : Antibiotics Day 76-80 : Antistress Day 81 :Debeaking Day 82-87: Vitamins Day 88: deworming Day 89-95: Antistress/Vitamins 16week: 3 in 1 vaccine (Ed's +ndv +ib)

๐™ƒ๐™Š๐™’ ๐™๐™Š ๐™๐™Ž๐™€ ๐™๐™ƒ๐™€ ๐™‹๐™Š๐™๐™‡๐™๐™๐™” ๐™‘๐˜ผ๐˜พ๐˜พ๐™„๐™‰๐™€ ๐˜พ๐˜ผ๐™‡๐™‡๐™€๐˜ฟ "๐™‡๐˜ผ๐™Ž๐™Š๐™๐˜ผ"

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It's very disheartening that many poultry  farmers make mistakes while using the vaccine expecially the lasota and gumboro leading to an overdose,underdose and vaccine failure The lasota vaccine is a live vaccine meant to create immunity against the Newcastle disease.Remember a vaccine was never meant to cure a disease,but prevent the disease by creating immunity in those poultry birds.Another question is ,how do I identify a bird with Newcastle disease ๐™Ž๐™„๐™‚๐™‰ ๐˜ผ๐™‰๐˜ฟ ๐™Ž๐™”๐™ˆ๐™‹๐™๐™Š๐™ˆ๐™Ž ๐™Š๐™ ๐™‰๐™€๐™’๐˜พ๐˜ผ๐™Ž๐™๐™‡๐™€ ๐˜ฟ๐™„๐™Ž๐™€๐˜ผ๐™Ž๐™€ 1)Gasping for air 2) Coughing 3)Nasal discharge 4) Diarrhea with greenish faeces 5)Paralysis of wings and legs 6)Toticiollis of turning head side ways, walking about in a circle or walking backwards 7)dying suddenly without notice We have digressed alittle, let's go back to the topic of today ๐™ƒ๐™Š๐™’ ๐˜ฟ๐™Š ๐™„ ๐™๐™Ž๐™€ ๐™๐™ƒ๐™€ ๐™‘๐˜ผ๐˜พ๐˜พ๐™„๐™‰๐™€ ➡️ Get your water(non-chlorinated) ➡️Buy the vaccine from a good veterinary pharmacist, maintain the cold chain ...