 | Better Farming Series 13 - Keeping Chickens (FAO - INADES, 1977, 48 p.) |
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| | Preface |
|  | Small livestock farming in the villages |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Little work but yields little |
| | Chicken farming must be improved |
| | The animal husbandry services help |
| | How to choose poultry |
| | Traditional types of poultry |
| | To improve poultry |
| | Good cocks must be selected |
| | Good hens must be selected |
| | Good chicks must be selected |
| | Improved breeds |
| | How to feed poultry |
| | To feed poultry well is important and difficult |
| | Poultry need good feed |
| | How poultry make use of food and water |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Energy feeds |
| | Body- building feeds: proteins |
| | Mineral salts |
| | Vitamins |
| | Clean water |
| | Special needs of chicks, laying hens, and table poultry |
| | How to protect poultry against disease |
| | Preventing poultry from getting ill |
| | Vaccination |
| | Main diseases of poultry |
| | How to house poultry |
| | (introduction...) |
| | How to build a poultry house |
| | Nests |
| | Feeding troughs |
| | Drinking troughs and fountains |
| | The brooder |
| | (introduction...) |
| | How to choose and look after hens to produce chicks |
| | Here is an example |
| | Suggested question paper |
To feed poultry well is important and difficult
35. In modern poultry raising you must take a lot of care in feeding the birds.
You want to have birds that grow quickly and yield a lot of meat and eggs.
For that you have to work more and provide most of the feed yourself.
Often you have to buy part of this feed.
36. Poultry are difficult to teed. They need a lot of different types of teed.
For instance, a hen is not like a goat, and cannot feed only on grass.
Poultry need rich feed.
For instance, to produce eggs a hen needs to get in its feed plenty of proteins and calcium.
Poultry need a certain quantity of each type of teed.
For example, if, to build your house, you have 10 kilogrammes too much cement and not enough sheet iron, you cannot use the cement instead of the iron. If, to build its body, a hen has too much protein and not enough calcium, the protein cannot replace the calcium.
It is useless.
You must give poultry the exact quantity of each feed that is needed.
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