This handbook contains all the information necessary to help you set up a poultry unit large or small, for broilers or layers. It assumes no specialized knowledge and contains advice on breeds, housing, feeding, management, health, marketing and finance. If you already have a poultry unit, or if...
This manual is designed to provide development workers with the information and tools needed either to begin or to improve poultry production. For those who are inexperienced in poultry production, this manual can identify and provide the basic information needed to raise and market poultry...
The main findings of this study support the hypothesis that village chicken production forms the basis for transforming the rural poultry sector from subsistence to a more economically productive base. This study also highlights the importance of information systems, which include data management...
The new practices, which are described in this booklet, have been tested on the Government farms and poultry centres and proved successful. If they are adopted widely and carried out carefully, the production of poultry products can be increased maniford at a comparatively low cost. The feeding...
Through sustained agricultural food production using ducks, fish, and crops this experiment sets out to be a means to love the poor. A system was built where ducks, fish, and crops could feed off each other's wastes. The plants and ducks grew well but there was not enough oxygen for the fish.
This puplication explains the most effective way to brood you chicks.Successful Brooding of Chicks provides information including when to brood, length od brooding, kinds and number of chicks to brood, systems of brooding, and caring for chicks. 21 pages, illustrated, photos
Poultry are the most benign of farm stock; easy to manage, resilient and relatively productive under the most varied conditions. Anyone with a small patch of land can keep poultry for their eggs and meat, and for breeding. There are few greater pleasures than keeping a flock of hens and feeding...
2002-01-01 This bulletin is about driving the train of your farm's activities and profitability with pasture-based poultry systems. 9 pages, illustrated, photos