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Poultry Training Guide

This comprehensive guide covers essential aspects of training poultry to maturity, including breed selection, housing, brooding management, feeding, vaccination schedules, health management, biosecurity, record keeping, marketing, and profitability factors. Key points include the importance of proper housing systems, nutrition tailored to growth stages, and maintaining health through vaccination and hygiene. Effective management practices can lead to healthy birds and profitable poultry farming.

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Poultry Training Guide

This comprehensive guide covers essential aspects of training poultry to maturity, including breed selection, housing, brooding management, feeding, vaccination schedules, health management, biosecurity, record keeping, marketing, and profitability factors. Key points include the importance of proper housing systems, nutrition tailored to growth stages, and maintaining health through vaccination and hygiene. Effective management practices can lead to healthy birds and profitable poultry farming.

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Comprehensive Guide: Training Poultry to Maturity

OVERVIEW
Poultry farming is the practice of raising domesticated birds such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, and

geese for meat or egg production. Training poultry to maturity involves brooding, feeding,

vaccination, housing, and proper hygiene to ensure healthy and profitable birds.

1. BREED SELECTION
a. Layers: Best for egg production (e.g., ISA Brown, Lohmann).

b. Broilers: Best for meat (e.g., Cobb 500, Ross 308).

c. Dual-purpose: Good for both eggs and meat (e.g., Rhode Island Red).

2. HOUSING
a. Deep Litter System: Birds move freely on littered floor.

b. Battery Cage System: Birds in individual cages for efficient egg collection.

c. Free-Range System: Birds roam within a fenced area.

Housing must be well-ventilated, predator-proof, and easy to clean.

3. BROODING MANAGEMENT
a. Duration: First 4 weeks.

b. Heat Source: Charcoal, gas brooder, or electric bulbs.

c. Temperature: Start at 32-35°C and reduce weekly by 2-3°C.

d. Space: 40-50 chicks/m² initially.

e. Bedding: Wood shavings or rice husks.

4. FEEDING MANAGEMENT
a. Chick Starter Feed (0-4 wks): 20-22% protein.

b. Grower Feed (5-16 wks): 16-18% protein.


c. Layer Feed (17+ wks): 15-17% protein with calcium.

d. Broiler Finisher Feed (after 4 wks): 18-20% protein.

e. Provide clean water always.

5. VACCINATION SCHEDULE
Day 1: Marek's disease (at hatchery).

Day 7: Newcastle + IB.

Day 14: Gumboro.

Day 21: Gumboro booster.

Week 4: Newcastle booster.

8 weeks+: Fowl pox, Fowl typhoid.

6. HEALTH AND DISEASE MANAGEMENT


a. Common Diseases: Coccidiosis, Newcastle, Marek's, Fowl pox.

b. Signs: Diarrhea, coughing, poor growth, sudden death.

c. Prevention: Vaccination, good hygiene, biosecurity.

d. Deworm and give multivitamins regularly.

7. BIOSECURITY
a. Restrict visitors and disinfect tools.

b. Use footbaths at entry.

c. Separate sick birds.

d. Control rodents and wild birds.

8. RECORD KEEPING
Maintain records of:

- Daily feed and water intake

- Mortality

- Vaccinations
- Egg production

- Expenses and sales.

9. MARKETING
Sell broilers at 6-8 weeks (2.0-2.5kg).

Sell eggs daily or weekly.

Target schools, hotels, markets, and retailers.

10. PROFITABILITY FACTORS


- Good breed selection

- Feed quality and efficiency

- Survival rate

- Market access

- Disease control

Feed makes up 60-70% of cost, so efficient conversion is key.

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