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Oct 08, 2011

Raising Free Range Chickens - Necropsy & Disease Identification

necropsy, poultry disease identification, common chicken diseases, certificate in poultry disease identification, free range chickens, organic chickens, grass fed chickens.

Being able to perform necropsy   of dead chickens and to identify diseases is crucial for the success of a chicken farm. Delays in disease identification can lead to outbreaks resulting in high mortality and economic losses. It is absolutely necessary for detail records to be kept from Day 0 until all the chickens are sold, for each batch.    Detail records will enable us to analyse out trends and history, which together with the lesions in organs will help identify the many causes of poor weight gain, mortality, etc. For example, trend analysis enabled us to identify a...

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Aug 03, 2011

Free Range Chicken - Natural Sun-Shading I

This Ramadan sure is hot.  For the watermelon seller, bad sales surely is not his lot.  The chickens listlessly loll.  Under the markisa shelters.  Aren't we glad we had tolled.  These lovely markisa all to enjoy. Yesterday was 40 celcius.  Hot enough for these chickens to drop dead from heat stroke. And we are talking about ayam kampung , tough as nails! Natural sun...

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Apr 13, 2011

Permaculture At The Farm II

Here are more examples of permaculture (permanent agriculture) at the farm: Mulching to reduce water loss.  Previously we advocated sheet mulching (to reduce weeds, etc ) with cardboard...

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