TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface................................................................................................................................................................. 2 Acknowledgements............................................................................................................................................ 2 Dedications......................................................................................................................................................... 2 INTRODUCTION TO POULTRY FARMING.................................................................................. 5 Keys to Successful Poultry Farming............................................................................................................... 6 Poultry Species and Breeds for Farming...................................................................................................... 17 Importance of Keeping Poultry..................................................................................................................... 26 Systems of Poultry Farming........................................................................................................................... 27 ESTABLISHING A POULTRY FARM................................................................................................ 35 Rearing Day-Old Chicks................................................................................................................................. 35 Criteria of Selecting Quality Day Old Chicks.............................................................................................. 35 Management of chicks in a brooder.............................................................................................................. 35 Requirements for Brooders............................................................................................................................ 37 Setting up a Brooder........................................................................................................................................ 38 Buying Started Pullets...................................................................................................................................... 41 What are pullets?.............................................................................................................................................. 41 How to select the best pullets........................................................................................................................ 41 POULTRY HOUSING............................................................................................................................... 42 Classification of Poultry Houses.................................................................................................................... 43 Temporary poultry house............................................................................................................................... 43 Semi-Permanent Poultry House.................................................................................................................... 44 Permanent Poultry House.............................................................................................................................. 45 Basic requirements for a permanent poultry housing............................................................................................... 45 BIOSECURITY ON POULTRY FARMS............................................................................................ 53 Biosecurity Defined......................................................................................................................................... 54 Biosecurity Measures....................................................................................................................................... 54 Disinfectants..................................................................................................................................................... 56 FEEDING POULTRY............................................................................................................................... 77 What is a feed?.................................................................................................................................................. 77 Nutritional requirements for chickens.......................................................................................................... 78 Classes of Nutrients......................................................................................................................................... 78 Factors Affecting the Nutrient Requirements of Poultry.......................................................................... 81 A Ration( or Feed)........................................................................................................................................... 82 What is a ration?............................................................................................................................................... 82 Factors to be considered in making a good feed......................................................................................... 82 What composes a ration?................................................................................................................................ 83 How to Mix a Ration....................................................................................................................................... 84 Feed Storage Guidelines................................................................................................................................. 85 DAILY, WEEKLY AND MONTHLY POULTRY ROUTINES.................................................. 85
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