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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...
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01/01/1990 Perché polli ed anatre possono utilizzare grano di eccedenza, scarti di tavola, decorazioni orto e sottoprodotti, loro possono provvedere una riserva di cibo preziosa. Delle comunitŕ di agricoltura produca piů grano che il bisogno di persone. Chiaramente l'eccesso potrebbe essere venduto, ma se...
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01/01/1984 Da quando tempi antichi, polli, anatre, ed oche hanno servito le comunitŕ che coltivano spigolando i campi di grano che altrimenti sarebbe perso; raccogliendo grano dal quale č lasciato cadere il margine nel battere, asciugando, e trasporto; facendo produttivo uso degli scarti dalla famiglia...
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The domestic guinea fowl (Numida meliagris) is a poultry bird that derives its name from the guinea coast of West Africa where it originated. Many poultry farmers in Africa are doing Guinea Fowl farming business successfully, mainly for profit. The Guineas are also sometimes called Guineas,...
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Quails are probably the smallest avian species used for production of table eggs and meat. Because of their prolific egg production and meat yield, quail farming is an economically very profitable venture. Quails belong, along with chickens, pheasants and partridges to the Family Phasianidae of...
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To formulate feeds, farmers have to use the Pearson Square method. In this method, the digestible crude protein (DCP) is the basic nutritional requirement for any feed preparation for all animals and birds. Now, assuming that a farmer wants to make feed for their chicken using this method, they...
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This document includesstep-by-step instructions on how to build an incubator for hatching eggs.
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Disease can be defined as any change or impairment of normal body function that affects the chickens’ ability to survive, grow or reproduce. An understanding of the cause of a disease and its method of spread (transmission) will assist in controlling it. Knowledge of the clinical signs of a...
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Poultry feed is food for farm poultry, including chickens, ducks, geese and other domestic birds. Before the twentieth century, poultry were mostly kept on general farms, and foraged for much of their feed, eating insects, grain spilled by cattle and horses, and plants around the farm. This was...
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The Most Promising Option (MoPO) for the Thuthukani broiler project is broiler production and will entail production, processing and marketing broilers that have been dressed, graded according to weight ( 1.2kg – 2kg), packaged, labeled and sold in large quantities (20kg+) as chicken cuts or...