Animal Agriculture

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