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Saturday, January 28th, 2012PHILIPPINES – Island folks of Bantayan Island, in the northern tip of Cebu, may soon enjoy the benefits of a renewable energy source abundant in the locality – biomass. Local officials of the island are tying up with some Chinese investors to explore the possibility of building a biomass plant to produce biogas from chicken [...]
Chicken Litter Management – Deep Litter Method
Friday, January 20th, 2012You’re ready for your new flock of hens: you have the coop, feeder and waterer and the chicks are on order. But what do you use for litter on the floor of the chicken coop? Pine shavings, hay, straw, or what? How often do you have to clean it out? And, for urban and suburban [...]
5 Tips for Getting Hens to Lay Eggs in Nest Boxes
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012Do your hens lay their eggs in hay bales, on the ground, in tall grass — everywhere but the nest boxes? Sometimes chickens can be very stubborn about this habit. These tips will encourage your hens to lay in their nest boxes, making sure you get the maximum number of fresh, clean eggs. Have enough nest boxes. One [...]
Duck Production Technologies
Sunday, December 25th, 2011Duck Raising Duck raising is a lucrative livestock industry in the Philippines because of its egg. Its most important product, the balut (boiled incubated duck’s egg), is sold daily throughout the archipelago for its delicious flavor and nutritive value. Duck raising is especially recommended in baytowns like those bordering the shores of Laguna de Bay, [...]
Chicken Production
Saturday, December 24th, 2011Introduction Chicken broiler and egg production are the most progressive animal enterprises in the Philippines today. The poultry industry in fact began as the backyard enterprise but has shifted to the formation of very large integrated contract farming operations. The growth of poultry industry in the Philippines has been impressive but its problems include inefficient [...]
The basics of chicken farming (in the tropics) Part 4 of 4
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011Common drugs in poultry 1 Chloramphenicol drinking water 1-2 g/ltr (lower concentration give no therapeutic bloodlevel); feed 4 g/kg rapid absorption, half-life time 80 minutes (in man 4 hours) layers: results in residues in the eggs chloramphenicol is rather insoluble (1:400); the palmitate form is to be used, is quite soluble and less bitter toxicity: [...]
The basics of chicken farming (in the tropics) Part 3 of 4
Tuesday, November 22nd, 20116.1 What should have been done before breeding starts? At the end of the growing period of the breeders the following matters should have received attention already. When the production of hatching eggs has started, it is too late for these measures: 1proper vaccinations vaccination schedules for breeder birds are different from commercial egg laying [...]
The basics of chicken farming (in the tropics) Part 2 of 4
Monday, November 21st, 2011Long water trough Here water is supplied in two different ways: a standing water There is an adjustable float valve. When the water level in the trough drops, the float opens automatically. At the other end of the trough there is an overflow in case something goes wrong. b running water The water flow never [...]
The basics of chicken farming (in the tropics) Part 1 0f 4
Monday, November 21st, 20111 Some aspects of chicken biology 1.1 External features The head: the comb eye and eye-ring nostrils (nose openings) wattles earlobes neck the body: the breast back tail belly the limbs: the wings upper arm lower arm ‘hand’ the legs upper leg lower leg or shank toes (4) + webs hock or spur claw (nails) [...]
Manual on Ethnoveterinary Medicine in Asia – Poultry
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011How to use this manual This is one of four manuals on traditional animal health care practices (or “ethnoveterinary medicine”) in tropical Asia. The manuals were compiled during a participatory workshop held at the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction in July 1994. The four manuals cover swine, poultry, ruminants (cattle, buffaloes, sheep and goats) and [...]
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