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• Turkey
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• Noiler
• Health Management
• Medication and Vaccination
• Feeding Program
• Diseases/Infections
• Organic Farming
• Housing and Facility 

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Medication And Vaccination Schedule For Layer

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There are many factors like selection of good chicks, location of farm and labour in the eggs production, but where most farmers get it wrong is in the aspect of poultry health management which is the major function of proper medication and vaccination schedule. We have discussed  How To Vaccinate Birds in previous articles. Below is the schedule you can follow as guide based on your experience in poultry farming: Day 1 -- Multivitamins/glucose Day 2-5 -- Antibiotics and multivitamins Day 6 -- Multivitamins Day 7 -- LaSota vaccine Day 8 -- Multivitamins Day 9-12 -- Anticoccidial drug Day 13 -- Multivitamins Day 14 -- Gumboro vaccine Day 15 -- Multivitamins Day 16-20 -- Antibiotics + Vitamins Day 21 -- Gumboro (booster) vaccine Day 28 -- LaSota (booster) vaccine Week 5 -- Tyloxine based drug (as antiviral) Week 6 -- 1st deworming Week 8 -- Antibiotics drugs Week 9 -- 1st coryza Week 12 -- Lasota Week 13 -- 2nd coryza Week 14 -- 2nd deworming ...
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Medication And Vaccination Schedule For Broiler

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In poultry health management, drugs and vaccine are very essential. Proper care must be taken to avoid excess mortality in the poultry business. Below is the time table for medication and vaccine programme for Broilers. Day 1: Marek vaccine which is usually giving to the chicks at hatchery. On getting to your brooding pen, the chicks just need glucose or multivitamin to ease transportation stress, don't mix the two together to avoid contraindication. Then serve them the broiler starter feed. Day 2-4: Multivitamins in the morning, antibiotics in the afternoon. Day 5-7: Anti-coccidiosis in the morning and multivitamin in the afternoon. Day 8: Gumboro vaccine. Day 9: Multivitamins Day 10-12: Anti-coccidiosis and vitamins. Day 13: Lasota vaccine mix with milk: a tablespoon full of Cow Bell or any other powder milk in 5 litres of drinking water. Day 14-19: Multivitamins. Day 20: 2nd Gumboro vaccine. Day 21-23: Multivitamins. Day 24-26: Anti-coccidiosis. Day 27: 2nd Lasota. ...
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Feed And Space Requirement For Noiler

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Noilers are basically raised for meat even though they also lay eggs. Their meat is tougher than that of broiler but not as that of local chicken. Noilers are multi coloured compared to broilers which are mainly white and the pullets that are mostly brown. As at now, Noilers can only be found (as Amo Noiler) at the Amo farm located in Awe area of Oyo in Oyo State. a) Feed Requirement Amo Noiler feed on the same feeds used for other birds but were limited to chickmash and grower mash. The birds eat more than other breeds but they are good converters of feeds because the weight is higher than that of cockerel at maturity. There are Male and Female lines of Amo Noiler. The females start laying from the 17th week which means, for optimum performance, they have to be separated from male line by 10th week (70 days). Hence, their feeding programs are slightly different. The feeding program is highlighted below based on the gender line: i) Males 0-28 days: Broiler starter 29-70 days: Gr...
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