HANDLING POULTRY.
Before
receiving the chickens:
Perform area
cleaning and disinfection of cages, equipment, interior of the building, service
areas and equipment. Check all equipment for adjustment and operation. Remove old
feed, feeders and canals. Disinfect and allow them to dry before new feed is
placed. Place rat poison where it won’t be consumed by the poultry.
A day before receiving the
chicks:
House temperature should be at 32 ° C at the level of
the chicks.
Check the water system. Adjust to the proper height
for chicks. Disinfect and clean water pipe jet.
The day of receiving the chicks:
During the first six weeks
Operate feeders to provide the birds with food twice a
day, or even more often after six weeks,
Observe food consumption and body weights against
theoretical graph sheet (although 10% of pullets to get a meaningful average.)
Observe daily the water available in each row of
cages. Make sure there are no leaks and repair them if there are any.
Increase water as the birds grow.
Follow the vaccination program.
Remove death birds daily and dispose of them properly.
Examine the causes of excess mortality.
Three days before moving pullets to laying, start
using soluble vitamins and electrolytes in the drinking water. Continue for
three days after housing thus minimizing the stress caused by the transfer.
Driving position period.
Making the change of bird food and continue the
vaccination plan to the collection of eggs minimum three times a day to inspect
the health of the birds constantly to prevent disease outbreaks, daily stress
data collection and sampling birds to
determine the proper development of birds.
Install thermometers five inches from the floor to determine the
temperature of the house, fill water troughs or put the water system in
operation.
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The handling of hens
in production becomes quite a routine.
Basically it boils down to the following activities:
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1. Provision for food and water for
fowl.
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2. Clean and disinfect sprues daily at least once a week with a
product recommended for this purpose.
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1 3.Collecting
eggs two to four times a day, which are stored in special deposit boxes and sorted
by size of and type.
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4.Check operation of the feeders and
waterers.
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1 5. Revise the bed, and replace it if wet.
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6. Check the bedding material of nests
and replace it if is very dirty.
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1 7. Remove the dead poultry and bring
them immediately to the place of waste, to be buried or burned.
7.Remove sick hens. It is useful to
examine those sick hens to find out what
is affecting them, Remove unproductive hens. This can be done once a week to
avoid altering the poultry too often, Remove the broody hens and give them the right
treatment to restart the laying cycle.
9. Record
daily information with the complete production carried for each group of hens.
The information required to bring an efficient poultry farm should undertake the following:
Daily record of food consumed per hen in the dugout.
Existing number registration of hens in the dugout every day.
Dead hens registration per day.
Food conversion Registration / eggs.
Broken or unusable eggs for sale registration
