Better Farming Series 13 - Keeping Chickens (FAO - INADES, 1977, 48 p.): How poultry make use of food and water: Clean water

Better Farming Series 13 - Keeping Chickens (FAO - INADES, 1977, 48 p.)

(introduction...)

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

Clean water

54. It is very important to give poultry plenty of clean water.

Poultry do not make good use of their food if they do not drink enough water.

One hen can drink a quarter of a litre of water a day.

For 20 hens, you need about 5 litres of water a day. If the weather is very hot, the birds will drink more. Each hen will drink about half a litre of water every day.

Put the water in fairly big drinking troughs so that several hens can drink at the same time.

Put the drinking troughs in the shade, near the feeding troughs.

Never let drinking troughs be empty. The water must always be clean. II It is dirty, it must be changed. Dirty water gives poultry a lot of diseases.

To make good use of feed poultry must drink a lot.