Animal Agriculture

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