Resources Tagged: Chickens

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  1. Village Chickens, Food Security and Poverty Alleviation: The Benefits of Newcastle Disease Control in Southern Africa

    2013-01-20 Village chickens can be found in all developing countries and play a vital role in many poor rural households. They provide scarce animal protein in the form of meat and eggs and can be sold or bartered to meet essential family needs such as medicine, clothes and school fees. Village poultry are...
    Chickens Village chickens Newcastle Disease Food Security

  2. How to Build a Kerosene Fired 180 Egg Incubator with 12V Air Circulation

    2003-01-01 Although this document will tell you how to build a particular incubator that I have used for several years, the ideas presented here should assist in building an incubator of any capacity. The orientation here is toward solving the problems in building a kerosene fired incubator in general....
    Egg Incubator Incubator Chicken Chickens Appropriate Techno...

  3. Recent updates on biogas production - a review

    Abstract, Biofuel Research Journal, 2016 One of the greatest challenges facing the societies now and in the future is the reduction of green house gas emissions and thus preventing the climate change. It is therefore important to replace fossil fuels with renewable sources, such as biogas. Biogas...
    Biogas Chickens

  4. Kacheri Woman Reaps Benefits From TOGETHER Program Poultry Vaccinations

    2015-03-02 Robert Okumu-Obonya, ECHO Technical Advisor for the TOGETHER Program, an initiative of ECHO, Church World Service, and MAP International, with funding support from St. Mary’s United Methodist Church Foundation, reports on progress being made through a poultry vaccination program being implemented...
    Newcastle Disease Vaccination Chickens Together Project East Africa

  5. Effects of Thyme and Oregano on Performance and Egg Quality Characteristics of Laying Hens

    Abstract, World's Poultry Science Journal, 2013 This study evaluated the effects of thyme (experiment 1) or oregano (experiment 2) on egg production, feed intake, egg quality and blood parameters of laying hens. In each experiment, a total of 120 sixty-week-old Hy-line Brown laying hens were...
    Chickens Eggs

  6. Tick Control Options

    1993-03-19 L. E. Andrews in Houston, Texas. “It sounds like Mr. Mears in Ecuador has a lot of problems with ticks! Marsha Hanzi, Instituto de Permacultura da Bahia, Brazil.“Regarding ticks on cattle, this is also a serious problem in the Brazilian altiplano, where it has been successfully kept within limits...
    Ticks Chickens Guinea Fowl

  7. African Women Adopt Vaccine Fight Against Poverty

    This is an article on the webpage ofCommunity of Practice for Pro-poor Livestock Development (CoP-PPLD), an on-line sharing network for practitioners, managers, researchers and other actors involved in pro-poor livestock development.The article presents the results of a successful ACIAR program...
    Newcastle Disease Chickens Livestock Development Animal Vaccination East Africa

  8. Scarcity to Abundance, Death to Life: An Indian Story of FAITH Garden Success

    2018-02-06 Speaker Bio: Sunil Johns Klavara is a graduate of Philosophy and has 26 years of experience working with Community Development projects and NGOs. He is the grandson of a village farmer, whose father continued farming even after becoming a Government Education Superintendent. Sunil facilitated the...
    Gardening Chickens Water Conservation Asia

  9. FAO - Egg Marketing: A Guide for the Production and Sale of Eggs

    This guide provides information and advice to those concerned with the production and sale of eggs in developing countries with an emphasis on marketing, i.e. producing in order to meet market demand. Market-led egg production enables long-term business survival, higher profits and a better...
    FAO Poultry production Business Skills Marketing Chickens Eggs

  10. Egg Basics for the Consumer: Packaging, Storage, And Nutritional Information

    University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
    Eggs Chickens