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FEEDING PROGRAM FOR LAYER EGG PRODUCTION

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In recent time, poultry egg production has become a giant and attractive industry. Farmers now consider poultry egg production as one of the most profitable area in livestock production. With it's high return in investment, people without enough knowledge of the enterprise has stormed the business believing that the venture would make them millionaires over a short period of time. People of such category always end up being frustrated due to their expectations that were cut short by problems and challenges beyond their sphere of knowledge. Amount of feed for different age of the layer birds is one of such challenges. While the problem of feeding amount is peculiar to farmers new in the business with little knowledge of the fundamentals of layer egg production, old farmers also fail in efficient feeding program. The importance of good feeding program is centered on the fact that giving birds too little or too much feed would affect productivity of the birds and consequently, the...

What you should Know about a hygienic pig house.

Hi friends, Today I want us to look at the importance of keeping a hygienic pen in our farm house. You see,  a lot of farmers overtime has cultivated the habit of leaving their farm house and pig sheds a mess, especially here in Nigeria - where there's is this mindset that the animal (pig) is sort of dirty in nature and so farmers chose to rather withdraw from battling with the Lord  since he has created them like that. Surprisingly, this belief is as false as the black Sun of yesterday. Pigs, omnivorous in nature, as we know have very large appetite for food and the inability of they few sweat glands to cool them off makes them eat almost everything they find and try to wallow in a source of water they come in contact so as to cool their temperature. Now because of the unavailability of food and water in most areas, pigs reared under extensive system of management would survive on the feed materials and water available in most gutters and dump sites - this is their situati...