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PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DAILY CARE, VACINATION AND MEDICATION OF POULTRY BIRDS

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                                                              CHAPTER 1 THE LITTER When you are starting poultry, the knowledge of litter comes first. A number of materials are suitable for deep litter, but some are more suitable for deep litter than others. The main attributes of a litter are that it should be absorbent and as free from dust as possible. The following are used on their own or in combination with others: Peat-moss, Chaff, Cut Straw, Shaving, Saw-dust and Wool shoddy. 1.       PEAT-MOSS  PEAT- MOSS is very dusty and as such not recommended for the Tropics. It is very absorbent and long lasting. Because it is dusty, the interior of the house tends to get covered with a fine brown dust. It is dark and does not reflect light. A good grade peat-moss with as little dust in it as possible should always be used. 2.       SAWDUST style='width:460.5pt;height:213.75pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> It is extensively

Common and important diseases of cattle

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Tick damage and tick-borne diseases Tick damage   Ticks can cause severe damage to cattle , particularly around the udder and ears. The wounds will often get infected with bacteria and might be attacked by flies some ticks cause greater damage than others, such as the ones which infect cattle with heartwater Prevention is by tick control. You could either use a pour-on or a plunge dip or spray dip if you have the facilities for this. Pour-ons can be easier to use and you do not need additional facilities, but these are more expensive, You may need to treat for ticks as often as once a week in the wet season and then every second week in the dry season, You may be able to treat less often if you vaccinate the cattle against tick-borne diseases. Tick-borne diseases Ticks can also infect cattle with redwater, gallsickness and heartwater, European breeds tend to be at greater risk from these diseases than indigenous and Brahman type breeds   Older animals are more at risk th

Diseases that People get from animals

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Diseases that come from milk Some diseases that people get, such as brucellosis and tuberculosis come from microbes that come out in an animal's milk. Microbes also get into milk from the air, the hands of a milkier, an animal's skin or from dirt in the place where animals are milked. Microbes breed very fast in warm milk. How to treat milk to stop diseases •  Heat milk and keep it very nearly boiling for twenty minutes then let it cool before drinking it. • Do not drink milk from sick animals. • Keep the place where animals are milked clean. Keep the milk clean. Only put milk into clean containers. Wash milk containers clean and put them upside down so the water comes out and they dry. Some herders clean milk containers by smoking them over a fire. Smoke kills some microbes. • Cover a milk container after you have filled it. If you can cool milk down (preferably to below 4°C) as soon as possible after milking, it will keep for long

20 BUSINESSES YOU CAN START WITH LITTLE MONEY

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Pay a visit to Lagos Island, or Oshodi where they sell bulk materials, pick good designs and I tell you they guys who will sew it for you are just within the same Market. You can start will less than 100k and diligently grow your money. 2. Shirt Production :  A sweet side hustle. There are tailors in Lagos Island or better learn the skill it will save you all the heartbreaks imaginable. Taiwo Street in Lagos Island is where you should be. Materials ranging from 700 – 1k per yard, sew for 1500/2k, Sell for 5-7k. 3. Boxers :  Schedule a trip to Aba Market, The cost of production of boxers, you can get one for as low as N300, all you need is to package it in 3s, and market these babies properly beg your friend on twitter for RTs, we buy 3s pack boxers for 1500-2500 sell yours for 1200 gradually grow. 4. E-Payments and POS Business: You can a get POS machine from your Bank, and activate online banking: If you live in a place where banks aren’t muc

Factors to consider before buying Day-Old Chicks

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Poultry farming is the least demanding however trickiest farming to begin. Stories about effective poultry farmers are all finished and everybody longs to be the following huge thing. For one to be an effective poultry farmer, there are factors you ought to get right and this starts from day one of creation; how you select your day-old chicks. A farmer must make certain whether they need to raise grill, layer or double reason poultry. This choice is subject to the overall market needs, accessible assets both human and non human and in addition the time the farmer needs to run the farm. Farmers too need to comprehend what types of poultry they need to work with contingent upon their accessibility, development rate, sickness protection and market acknowledgment by buyers. The eventual fate of each poultry farm depends on the underlying stock. The day-old chicks! Strolling around the domains, you run over adverts for day-old chicks each couple of meters. Have you at any point ponde

Crop Insecurity: What's The Way Forward For Our Food?

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The so-called “green revolution” of the Nineteen Sixties changed into a pivotal second for agriculture. many years of funding in agricultural research — a whole lot of it supported by way of the united states govt — resulted in new, larger-yielding crops that have been added to developing countries along with fertilisers, agrochemicals and irrigation recommendations.  These applied sciences modified world meals production, saving thousands and thousands from hunger in famine-susceptible international locations and environment the model for up to date agriculture. In 1970, the “father” of the eco-friendly revolution, Norman Borlaug, an American geneticist who helped pioneer excessive-yielding, ailment-resistant crops, bought the Nobel Peace Prize. He is still the most effective agriculturalist ever to do so.  however, all revolutions have consequences. The want for food safety favoured the intensive creation of just a few plants and the displacement of species that couldn’t co

Tips On A Way To Start Snail Farming

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Snail breeding is one investment that can yield quick money if the farmer is aware the up to date suggestions and species which are in high demand in Europe, us of a and other developed nations.Snail farming is a achievable and doable assignment yet unexplored in Nigeria. If it has worked in different places, it will work in Nigeria. The demand for snail is higher than the components, an illustration that the market knowledge of snail is inexhaustible, in the neighborhood and internationally.investment capital: it's more affordable to deploy snails farming because it reproduces quick. that you may delivery the company with N60,000 or N100,000 counting on how massive you need your snail farm to be. Asides the quantity of your investment, it is possible to produce 1,000,000 snails now value greater than N5 million twice a yr. here's made feasible because of the availability of very incredibly prolific Achatina Achatina species of snails, which lay 200-four hundred in

What You Deserve To Understand Before Feeding Your Dog Or Cat Marijuana

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Vets and lawmakers warn in opposition t pets drinking marijuana items with THC. Giving your pet a cannabis brownie or slipping an fit to be eaten into its meals tray could produce undesirable effects, comparable to lethargy, low blood pressure and even dying for animals like dogs, whose THC receptors of their brains are tremendously greater sensitive than those of humans, Werber talked about. Use of marijuana products on smaller animals, reminiscent of birds, rodents and reptiles, is not a good suggestion, referred to Werber. The latest trend for treating Fido’s ache is available in a package now not found at a run-of-the-mill veterinarian’s office. The marijuana growth across the united states and now in Nevada hasn’t simply been about americans. As a whole lot as 5 p.c of the country’s estimated one hundred sixty five million canines and cats owned as pets are worried in the use of some type of the plant, in response to estimates by means of the American Veterinary scient