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Simple steps 1st step get : Get any plastic open container. Size should be according to quantity of maggots you want to make... 2nd step : Get any substrate that are non smelly like Rice bran,  wheat offal,  pkc, maize shaft from akamu,  cassava shaft  . These materials serves as bedding and substrate for the flies to lay their egg 3rd step : Mix some quantity  of water with sugar or molasses  allow the mixture to stay for 24hours covering it in a cool dry place  and 4th step:  Mix this water mixture with any substrate you have chosen till it forms a mesh don't water logg the substrate... And leave the plastic containing the substrate in an isolated place so no much disturbance 5th step : after 3 days you will notice lots of flies around the plastic containing  the substrate,  but before then make sure daily you wet the mixture by sprinkling  water to make the content so it remain in a mesh form Note once the content is dry.. Flies will only eat from the substr

1. Anthrax disease of ruminants : Anthrax, a highly infectious and fatal disease of cattles, is caused by a relatively large spore-forming rectangular shaped bacterium called Bacillus anthracis . Anthrax occurs on all the continents,causes acute mortality in ruminants. The bacteria produce extremely potent toxins which are responsible for the ill effects, causing a high mortality rate. The bacteria produce spores on contact with oxygen.  Signs of the illness usually appear 3 to 7 days after the spores are swallowed or inhaled. Once signs begin in animals, they usually die within two days. Hoofed animals, such as deer, cattle, goats, and sheep, are the main animals affected by this disease. They usually get the disease by swallowing anthrax spores while grazing on pasture contaminated (made impure) with anthrax spores. Inhaling (breathing in) the spores,which are odorless, colorless, and tasteless, may also cause infection in animals and people. In the c

Maggot farming is the act of growing maggots for the industry. It is distinct from vermicomposting as there is no separate composting process going on, and maggots are used which are distinct from worms (they also consume only flesh, not plant-based material). Species used A variety of species can be used, including the black soldier fly, as well as various other fly species. Due to convenience, fly species are often used which are indigenous to the area of cultivation. Method of cultivation When using indigenous fly species, one tactic adopted is to simply dump offal or meat that has exceeded the sell-by date in concrete bins. The bins are then covered with chicken wire to prevent any large animals of being able to feed off it. Then, flies deposit eggs on the offal and meat, and maggots hatch and consume it. After that, the bins are filled with water, so the maggots start to float (separating themselves from any leftovers). The maggots are then harvested and the l

Vaccination is very important in livestock production, especially in poultry production. Poultry farmers should vaccinate their flock (broiler, pullets, layers, turkeys, duck, geese etc.) against diseases to avoid losing them to these diseases and preventing high financial loss. Vaccination, in addition to proper farm hygiene and sanitation practice enables you as a farmer to prevent diseases from taking over your flock, allowing you to get the best out of your animals and also producing wholesome or safe meat for human consumption. The vaccination schedule for layers is as follows: Age Vaccine Route Day 1 Marek's Disease is given Subcut and back of neck Day 9-14 Newcastle Disease (NDV)  given via Drinking water, eye drop Day 14 Gumboro/Infectious Bursal Disease (IBDV) via Drinking water Day 28 Gumboro/Infectious Bursal Disease (IBDV) Drinking water Week 4 Newcastle Disease (NDV) via Drinking water or drop " Infectious Brochitis (IBV) Drinking water Week 8 Fowl pox

Vaccination is very important in livestock production, especially in poultry production. Poultry farmers should vaccinate their flock (broiler, pullets, layers, turkeys, duck, geese etc.) against diseases to avoid losing them to these diseases and preventing high financial loss. Vaccination, in addition to proper farm hygiene and sanitation practice enables you as a farmer to prevent diseases from taking over your flock, allowing you to get the best out of your animals and also producing wholesome or safe meat for human consumption. The vaccination schedule for layers is as follows: Age Vaccine Route Day 1 Marek's Disease is given Subcut and back of neck Day 9-14 Newcastle Disease (NDV)  given via Drinking water, eye drop Day 14 Gumboro/Infectious Bursal Disease (IBDV) via Drinking water Day 28 Gumboro/Infectious Bursal Disease (IBDV) Drinking water Week 4 Newcastle Disease (NDV) via Drinking water or drop " Infectious Brochitis (IBV) Drinking water Week 8 Fowl

Your left over foodstuffs can be utilized by ur birds and will be converted to meat.

Processed broiler is a fast process to make money in broiler farming. Within 7 weeks, a broiler farm is on the verge of making thousands, millions if properly planned. This kind of operation favours the festive rearing for commercial consumption, an individual who wishes to do processed broiler just have to wait patiently for 6-7 weeks, and with the market already planned with his production surely will make good sum of money. Before an individual venture into processing broilers, the fundamental knowledge of broilers has to be gotten. Whether it been processed or festive broilers, you cannot run a broiler operation without fundamental knowledge of this niche of poultry farming.  * The analysis of setting up 500 broilers for processing in 7 weeks is shown below.* 👉🏻 *It is very important, that uniformity must be constantly achieved in broiler processing.* In 6-7 weeks, a broiler farmer should have attained 80% uniformity in birds so as to benefit 80% in marketing. Unifor

1. Protein : Snails do provide a low calorie source of protein (unless you drench them in butter. Protein is essential for building and repairing muscle, and is also better at filling you up than carbs and fat. Many people look to seafood as an easy source of protein, but actually, snails have more. 2. Iron : Snails are also a good source of iron, essential for building red blood cells and carrying energy around the body. A lack of iron can lead to extreme fatigue and anaemia. 3. Vitamin B12: Often cited as the ‘energy vitamin’, B12 is needed for making red blood cells, keeping the nervous system healthy, releasing energy from the food we eat and processing folic acid. Luckily, snails have lots of it. 4. Magnesium : Snails are also a good source of magnesium, which our bodies need to maintain a normal blood pressure, strengthen bones and also keep your heartbeat regular. 5. Selenium : We don’t need much selenium in our bodies, but we do need some to keep a healthy

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Pond outlet Artificially, many fish farmers have been unable to successfully breed African Catfish. Several attempts made have given unfruitful results. In this guide, Read more... .

NEWCASTLE DISEASE IN POULTRY. Our know-how of  issues on Poultry helps  us in getting a better result if we implement them in our Poultry management. We are  talking about Newcastle Disease in Poultry which is a viral infection of domestic birds, ornamental and wild birds. It also affect birds of all ages, it is not age sensitive. Birds are usually infected through contact with respiratory droplets from infected  birds or through ingestion of feed or water contaminated with feacal  materials of infected birds. Local chickens are  carriers of the infection so never tolerate local chickens near your poultry. Signs usually seen include acute respiratory problems like coughing,  sneezing, rales etc, nervous manifestations like torticolis I.e twisted neck, paralysis of wings and legs etc, diarrhoea, misshapened eggs, small sizes,  bleached eggs, increase in cracks, at times egg production ceases outrightly and mortality. Severity of disease depends on the type of virus involved, su

Caecotrophy, commonly known as coprophagy , is a specialized digestive strategy c ommon in the Mammalian order Lagomorpha (rabbits, hares and pikas) and som.. Read more...

Broiler farm There are several factors limiting the operation of poultry farm in various parts of the world. The most prominent on... Read more

To fulfill the food demand for growing population, we have to find out different ways of food production. The rabbit known as “Micro-Livestock” can be a great source of food production. There is a great opportunity of rabbit farming, and commercial production can be a great source of income and employment. Rabbits need small place for living and less food for surviving. Rabbit meat contains high ratio of protein, energy, calcium and vitamin than any other types of animal meat. The amount of cholesterol, fat and sodium is also less than other meat. Their meat is very testy, nutritious and easily digestible for all aged people. And there are no religious taboo for consuming rabbit meat. Rabbits grow very fast and the female rabbit produce 2 to 8 kids per parturition. They can consume very low quality food and turn these foods to high quality meat, skin or fiber. Raising rabbit can be a great income source to the unemployed educated people and landless farmers. So commercial rabb

Why Your Snail Eggs are not Hatching Have you ever wondered why snails burrow deep into the soil to lay their eggs in cluster of 6-10 eggs? Snail eggs hatch at room temperature and a relative humidity of about 70% - 90% Always remember that you need point of lays as a new farmer to start counting eggs all around your pen*Zulinkxagrovet got you covered  *Call 📲08134750806* (whatsapp)  or send us sms to ORDER Our Point of lays are not just laying, they are healthy and highly productive

GreenCollarInitiative in collaboration with Allied Agro Products LTD  brings to you a youth based empowerment scheme. These international and local Organizations are Non-Governmental Organizations with the aim of empowering Nigerian based youths and companies. The mandate of the scheme is to select among the Applicants an individual  or persons/corperate whose entrepreneurial skills/ideas/business encourages poverty eradication, elimination of hunger and unemployment among the youths. The selected individual(s)/corporate is (are) entitled to non refundable N500,000 (five hundred thousand naira) to N5,000,000 (five million naira) from the organizers. Persons whose skills or ideas could not attract monetary empowerment,at their disposal will be sent to our establishments and institutions for training where they will be allowed to learn any skill of their choice and be paid monthly salaries. Note that application is free, don't pay a dime to anyone. The empowerment is expected

Stressed broiler bird Simple Practical ways to manage heat stress in birds during hot weather seasons.          So far so goo d, even though some parts of the country has started seeing some bits and pieces of rain, 2018 has been a very hot and dry weathered year as the heat has really taken its toll on most farmers' flock.        Whether you are rearing broilers or layers , no thanks to global warming over the past few years there is every possibility that you would be affected by this uninviting heat that we have all been experiencing of recent.            Those who have young chicks would most likely experience some form of watery droppings around the vent of their chicks that dries up to form what we call pasty vent. Well, this is as a result of the fact that your chicks are drinking much more quantity of water to re-hydrate themselves since they can not control their body temperature at that stage of their early life.           While poultry farmers with you

      Hydroponic systems, our focus is in the sensitization of livestock farmers on how to increase farm yields and help even smallholder farmer to maximize on returns. Our aim is especially putting a focus on the wheat and Guinea Corn seed to produce fodder. Hydroponic farming is the art of growing plants without the use of soil .This technology is as old as history and was used in famous hanging gardens of Babylon. For commercial purposes to feed livestock, it started in 1960s in Australia and has spread to the rest of the world ever since. Hydroponics technology can be adopted using locally available materials to control temperature thereby making hydroponic farming a reality. A farmer can construct a 3m by 4m house unit which can support to feed two dairy cows or (10 pigs, goats, sheep) and over 400 birds. The amount of fodder from this unit is equivalent to two acres of Napier grass. Hydroponic fodder for livestock is the main meal but not supplement. Actuall

Open main menu Search Edit Watch this page Read in another language Pigs are amenable to many different styles of farming.  Intensive commercial units , commercial  free range  enterprises, extensive farming - being allowed to wander around a village, town or city, or tethered in a simple shelter or kept in a pen outside the owners house. Historically pigs were kept in small numbers and were closely associated with the residence of the owner, or in the same village or town. [1]  They were valued as a source of meat, fat and for the ability to turn inedible food into meat, and often fed household  food waste  if kept on a homestead. Pigs have been farmed to dispose of municipal garbage on a large scale. [2] All these forms of pig farm are in use today. In developed nations, commercial farms house thousands of pigs in climate-controlled buildings. [3] Pigs are a popular form of  livestock , with more than one billion pigs butchered each year worldwide,

Before you quit farming, think about these. 1). Nobody is rich enough to eat his cash for dinner....he must eat food. 2).The world population will never reduce in fact it's increasing rapidly.....they Need food. 3).People will never change stones to food....even if they employ Technology. 4).10 years from now even if everyone will be a farmer we can't satisfy the planet increasing demand....so why quite Now. 5).Farming is a home of choices if you can't feed a person feed an animal.. 6).Before  quitting farming think about your family.....who will feed them? Me? I have mine to feed too. 7).Before you quit farming remember that suit of yours is made from cotton..... #AGRIC_IS_NOW_BUSINESS_ NOT_A_CULTURE  Good evening great farmers!! I'm Ozuluonye Emmanuel

CREEP FEED Maize:50.1kg Fish meal: 3.5kg Wheat bran: 8kg Soya bean meal: 22kg Milk powder:12.5kg Bone meal: 0.5kg Salt : 0.4kg Lysine: 0.7kg Methonine: 0.13kg Lime stone: 0.8kg  Growers mash Quantity (kg/100kg) Maize 45 Soya Meal 7.5 Wheat Offal 12 Limestone 5 Bone Meal 2.5 Palm Kernel Cake 12 Groundnut Cake 15 Premix 0.25 Toxin Binder 0.15 Salt 0.3 Super Liv 0.05 Methionine 0.15 Lysine 0.1 Total 100 kg  Finisher  Quantity:(kg/100kg) Maize 66 Soya Meal 18.55 Groundnut Cake 7 Brewer’s Dried Grain 5 Bone Meal 2 Oyster shell 0.5 Broiler Premix 0.25 Salt 0.5 Methionine 0.1 Lysine 0.1 Total 100 kg "